When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..

Thomas Szasz

Tags: self-perception seriousness

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oscar Wilde

Tags: humor seriousness

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It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.

G.K. Chesterton

Tags: seriousness solemnity frivolity

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This showed once again that everyone had something different to lose in this battle. Some were concerned for their lives, and some for those they cared most about: rays, sea horses, even the chickens that ran free in the streets of the city because they couldn't all be caught in time.

Kai Meyer

Tags: humor death seriousness

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Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Tags: life seriousness krishna divakaruni palace-of-illusions panchaali

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The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

G.K. Chesterton

Tags: humor humanity humour language seriousness

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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

P.J. O'Rourke

Tags: seriousness earnestness o-rourke p-j prertension

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I touched my scalp where Sula had wrapped the cloth. It still burned, but it made me feel important. I'd been wounded in combat. Anyone could break a leg or dislocate a sholder, but how many people get shot? I could tell by the way Will was looking at me that he was impressed too and not a little bit jealous. I would have quickly traded the head wound, however, for a glass of clean water.

Cameron Stracher

Tags: humor seriousness

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Albert Campion: 'I’m serious!'
Lugg: 'That’s unhealthy in itself.

Margery Allingham

Tags: humor seriousness albert-campion margery-allingham

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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Tags: seriousness life-lessons

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