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"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."	Max Forrester Eastman
"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
"Humor is just another defense against the universe."	Mel Brooks
"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."	Mignon McLaughlin
"Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock."	Miguel de Cervantes
"Laughter is an instant vacation!"	Milton Berle
"We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him."	Napolean Bonaparte
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."	Nicolas Chamfort
"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them."	Niels Henrik David Bohr
"What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too."	Norman Cousins
"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."	Orison Swett Marden
"Harrison Ford as the President of the United States [in Air Force One] is such a perfect piece of casting that it's once a fantasy and a joke: The joke is how perfect the fantasy is."	Owen Gleiberman
"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh."	Patricia Hitchcock
"It's hard to create humor because of the unfair competition from the real world."	Peter's Almanac
"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry. "	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."	Rebecca West
"All you earnest young men out to save the world … please, have a laugh."	Reinhold Niebuhr
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