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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.
I'm a very serious guy. I try to counter that predisposition of being a serious person with all this tomfoolery that I love to do so much. I really enjoy it; that's why I do it. I don't like the way I am... perhaps my natural default is to be that way, and I don't like that.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.