Oscar Wilde said "Life's too important to be taken seriously." A corollary is "Bridge can be too much fun to be taken seriously - all the time."

Tennyson’s poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” puts into words the nearly hopeless attack of light cavalry against overwhelming forces. Facing cannons to the left of them, cannons to the right of them, volleying and thundering, they rode forth on their must do – or die – mission.