—  George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian

—  Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer

—  Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet

—  Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher

—  Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher

—  H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer

—  Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer

—  Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian

—  Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer

—  William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Macbeth

—  Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer

—  Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher

—  George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

—  Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary

—  Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer

—  Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet

—  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

—  Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer

—  Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist

—  François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician

—  Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer

—  Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer

—  Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet

—  Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer

—  George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian

—  Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist

Δακρυόεν γελάσασα.

—  Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad VI

     (of Andromache)

—  Chinese proverb