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"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip."	Jonathan Carroll
"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
"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."	Bennett Alfred Cerf
"Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock."	Miguel de Cervantes
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."	Nicolas Chamfort
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."	Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down…. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke."	Terry Cohen
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it."	Bill Cosby
"What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too."	Norman Cousins
"God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end."	(William) Harvey Cox
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes."	William Davis
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears."	Rene Descartes
"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."	Max Forrester Eastman
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."	Umberto Eco
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."	Albert Einstein
"If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter."	Henry Elliot
"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Allison Kearney	Amy Grant	Anne Frank
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