Caves Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”

— Oscar Wilde

We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from…

— Rick Warren

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

— R. C. Sproul

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man?…

— Rajneesh

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed…

— Pliny the Elder

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

— Winston Churchill