There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

A joke is a very serious thing.

I have noticed that when I am most serious people are apt to laugh at me, and indeed when after a lapse of time I have read passages that I wrote from the fullness of my heart I have been tempted to laugh at myself. It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

The increasing seriousness of things, then that's the great opportunity of jokes.

Some people are only funny when they try to be serious.

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

...you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.

You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.