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"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
"My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers."	Ronald Reagan
"My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself."	Maya Angelou
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."	Sir Walter Besant
"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Nobody ever died of laughter."	Max Beerbohm
"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?"	Dan Fielding
"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings."	John Gillespie Magee
"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything."	Herbert Gardner
"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]
"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."	Larry Gelbart
"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
"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."	Robert Anson Heinlein
"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."	Robert Anson Heinlein
"One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"People laugh when I say that I think a jellyfish is one of the most beautiful things in the world. What they don't understand is, I mean a jellyfish with long, blond hair."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"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
"People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue."	Walter J. Lippmann
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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
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