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"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings."	John Gillespie Magee
"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."	Orison Swett Marden
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."	Julius Henry Marx
"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."	Elsa Maxwell
"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? ... Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."	Golda Meir
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."	Golda Meir
"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."	Henry Louis Mencken
"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one."	Henry Miller
"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."	Bob Newhart
"All you earnest young men out to save the world … please, have a laugh."	Reinhold Niebuhr
"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
"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."	Woody Allen
"Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit."	Author Unknown
"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
"It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile."	Author Unknown
"Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense."	Author Unknown
"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."	Joseph Addison
"Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place."	Josh Billings
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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