Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because…

— Paul Simon

I grew up around so much new agey stuff. Part of me takes it lightly because I'm so used to it. It was my…

— Devendra Banhart

We have this idea that seriousness is of higher value. But surely there is more human pleasure and delight in time spent with humour…

— Grayson Perry

“Realise that there is no necessity to always be serious.”

— Steven Redhead

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

— Booth Tarkington

Don't take life too seriously.

— RuPaul

When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if…

— Barack Obama

I approach every game with the same level of seriousness.

— Keylor Navas

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas…

— G. H. Hardy

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

— Andrea Riseborough

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

— Oscar Wilde

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests…

— George Will

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the…

— K'naan

“Despite the seriousness of the subject,”

— Anonymous

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)...…

— Anonymous