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"There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings."	John Gillespie Magee
"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"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
"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."	Joseph Addison
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."	Joseph Addison
"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
"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
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."	Karl Barth
"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
"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."	Larry Gelbart
"That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional."	Laurie E. Colwin
"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
"Housekeeping ain't no joke."	Louisa May Alcott
"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."	Mae West
"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."	Mahatma Gandhi
"If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."	Martin Luther
"Nobody ever died of laughter."	Max Beerbohm
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."	Max Forrester Eastman
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Bill Bryson	Bob Newhart	Boy George
B. J. Gupta	Charles De Gaulle	Charles Hendrickson Brower
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Dan Fielding	Dean Koontz	Dick Clark
Dorothy Parker	Douglas Adams	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Edgar Watson Howe	Edward Albee	Elbert Hubbard
Ellie Katz	Elsa Maxwell	Eric Idle
Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Ethel Barrymore
Eugene Lam	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Frank A. Clark
Fred Allen	Freeman John Dyson	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
George	George Burns	George Carlin
George Barrell Cheever	George Gordon	George Gordon Byron
Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Gloria Steinem
Golda Meir	Gordon William Allport	Groucho Marx
Helen Hayes	Henny Youngman	Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Cate, VII	Henry Elliot	Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Miller	Herbert Gardner	Herman Melville
Hilaire Belloc	Homer McLin	H. G. Mendelson
Isaac Asimov	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jean de LaBruyere
Jennifer Jones	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Gillespie Magee	John Guarrine	John Kenneth Galbraith
Jonathan Carroll	Joseph Addison	Julius Henry Marx
J. M. Linsner	J. Russel Lynes	Kahlil Gibran
Karl Barth	Katharine Houghton Hepburn	Larry Gelbart
Laurie E. Colwin	Lewis Carroll	Louisa May Alcott
Mae West	Mahatma Gandhi	Martin Luther
Max Beerbohm	Max Forrester Eastman	Maya Angelou
Mel Brooks	Mignon McLaughlin	Miguel de Cervantes
Milton Berle	Napolean Bonaparte	Nicolas Chamfort
Niels Henrik David Bohr	Norman Cousins	Orison Swett Marden
Owen Gleiberman	Patricia Hitchcock	Peter's Almanac
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rebecca West	Reinhold Niebuhr
Rene Descartes	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert
Robert Anson Heinlein	Robert Killinger	Robert Lee Frost
Rodney Dangerfield	Romain Gary	Ronald Reagan
Rupert Brooke	Russell Lynes	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel S. Janus	Shirley MacLaine	Sinclair Lewis
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Walter Besant	Sri da Avabhas
Stephen Fry	Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort	Terry Cohen
Theodore M. Hesburgh	Umberto Eco	Victor Borge
Victor Hugo	Walter J. Lippmann	William Hazlitt
William Davis	Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	Zsa Zsa Gabor	(Justin) Brooks Atkinson
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