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"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."	Elsa Maxwell
"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
"If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"When humor goes, there goes civilization."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."	Ethel Barrymore
"Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel."	Eugene Lam
"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
"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it."	Frank A. Clark
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."	Fred Allen
"Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne-sounds like a trunk falling down a flight of stairs."	Fred Allen
"Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut."	Fred Allen
"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."	Fred Allen
"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."	Freeman John Dyson
"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
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver."	George
"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: I'm such a klutz! But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver."	George
"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, This that I may not weep."	George Gordon
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