Quotes of Serious - somelinesforyou

“ An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. ”

- Anatole France

“ How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide! ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. ”

- Mark Twain

“ All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. ”

- Bible

“ This thing is vengeance. It makes no sense. This is not the same woman who committed those crimes. ”

- Pat Robertson

“ Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: / That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. ”

- Bible

“ A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. ”

- Ezra

“ A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. ”

- Paul Valery

“ There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not. ”

- Willie Nelson

“ Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime. ”

- Angela Davis

“ The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates. ”

- Mary Landrieu

“ I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious. ”

- Robert Plant

“ Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. ”

- Fred Rogers

“ I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems. ”

- Edward Gorey

“ I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ”

- Georges Clemenceau

“ You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. ”

- Sacha Guitry

“ Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ”

- Brendan Gill

“ My work is a game, a very serious game. ”

- M. C. Escher

“ Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. ”

- Aristotle

“ Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. ”

- Unknown

“ One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ 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. ”

- Herodotus

“ A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ No human thing is of serious importance. ”

- Plato
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