“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
“But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
“Life's too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.”
“The incarnation is "a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers... Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.”
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
“Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious”