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"The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little 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
"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry. "	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?"	Dan Fielding
"I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments."	Anne Frank
"It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously."	Stephen Fry
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death."	Robert
"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything."	Herbert Gardner
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."	Kahlil Gibran
"Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."	Kahlil Gibran
"Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything."	Arnold H. Glasgow
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."	Arnold H. Glasgow
"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, This that I may not weep."	George Gordon
"More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams."	Amy Grant
"One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"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]
"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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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