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"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh."	Katharine Houghton Hepburn
"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?"	Theodore M. Hesburgh
"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh."	Patricia Hitchcock
"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
"Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world … often a deeply felt rage."	Samuel S. Janus
"WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness."	Ellie Katz
"Laughter is complete rapture vocalized."	Allison Kearney
"You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything."	Robert Killinger
"Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed!"	Jean de LaBruyere
"Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel."	Eugene Lam
"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
"I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers."	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."	Shirley MacLaine
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."	Elsa Maxwell
"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."	Mignon McLaughlin
"A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either."	Homer McLin
"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
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