A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
Will Rogers

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
Will Rogers

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
Hunter S. Thompson

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Ernest Hemingway

Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer