A joke is a very serious thing.

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

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

That’s the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.

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

There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.

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

The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.

Love is being stupid together.

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.

What's so funny about peace, love and understanding

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -