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"A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods."	Author Unknown
"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'"	Lewis Carroll
"All you earnest young men out to save the world … please, have a laugh."	Reinhold Niebuhr
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, This that I may not weep."	George Gordon
"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what IS that thing?!"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted."	Eric Idle
"Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything."	Arnold H. Glasgow
"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."	Rupert Brooke
"Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock."	Miguel de Cervantes
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country."	George Gordon Byron
"Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it."	Ann Landers
"Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred?' And they'll say, 'Fred who?' And you say, 'Fred of snakes?' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."	Max Forrester Eastman
"Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed!"	Jean de LaBruyere
"Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. "You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight."	Sri da Avabhas
"Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit."	Author Unknown
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Ann Landers	Anthony Burgess	Arnold H. Glasgow
Author Unknown	Bennett Alfred Cerf	Bill Cosby
Bob Newhart	Clarence Seward Darrow	Dan Fielding
Dean Koontz	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Edgar Watson Howe
Elbert Hubbard	Elsa Maxwell	Eric Idle
Erma Louise Bombeck	Ethel Barrymore	Eugene Lam
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Friedrich Nietzsche	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
George Gordon	George Gordon Byron	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Golda Meir	Gordon William Allport	Helen Hayes
Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Elliot	Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Miller	Herbert Gardner	Hilaire Belloc
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jean de LaBruyere	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Gillespie Magee	Jonathan Carroll
Joseph Addison	Josh Billings	Julius Henry Marx
J. M. Linsner	J. Russel Lynes	Kahlil Gibran
Karl Barth	Katharine Houghton Hepburn	Lewis Carroll
Martin Luther	Max Beerbohm	Max Forrester Eastman
Maya Angelou	Miguel de Cervantes	Milton Berle
Napolean Bonaparte	Nicolas Chamfort	Niels Henrik David Bohr
Norman Cousins	Orison Swett Marden	Patricia Hitchcock
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reinhold Niebuhr	Rene Descartes
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert	Robert Anson Heinlein
Robert Killinger	Rupert Brooke	Shirley MacLaine
Sri da Avabhas	Stephen King	Stephen Fry
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort	Terry Cohen	Theodore M. Hesburgh
Umberto Eco	Victor Borge	Victor Hugo
William Hazlitt	William Davis	Woody Allen
Wystan Hugh Auden	(William) Harvey Cox