“Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.”
“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”
“Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.”
“Analyzing humor is like disecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”
“I am, indeed, pure Frog, but at the same time I am a thing that stands for a world of un-Frog.”
“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?”