Quotes About Seriousness

Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves'.

We don't take it too seriously, said Harry. —What? —The golf. —To avoid the disappointment, said Liam.—The same with everything. That's what it's all about now, isn't it? From here on in. Avoiding disappointment.

Think as if your life depended on it.

People trying to be funny are never as funny as people trying to be serious and failing.

Larry Kudlow, the president's chief economic adviser, had been questioning the seriousness of the situation. He couldn't square the apocalyptic forecasts with the bouyant stock market. "Is all the money dumb?" he wondered. "Everyone's asleep at the switch? I just have a hard time believing that."*

No jokes, no banter. No pre-mission

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

When men are cruel, it's capricious. When women are cruel, it's serious.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have

I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.

A serious-minded man enjoys a good laugh now and then.

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

I do not often laugh, sir," answered the unknown. "As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Mrs. Pollifax wondered why, when she was being her most serious, people found her so amusing.

Comedy, Lorne often said, is too important to be left to professionals.

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.