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

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
Colin Powell

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Vladimir Lenin

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Herodotus

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
Paul McCartney

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

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf

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

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. Wells

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Kanye West

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
Pope John XXIII

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein