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

A joke is a very serious thing.

Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.

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

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

Jokes can be handled in such a way that any reader who is not altogether lacking in discernment can scent something far more rewarding in them than in the crabbed and specious arguments of some people we know.

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

And yet methinks the older that one grows
Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter
Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.