“ 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- Copy
- 384
“ He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.5K
“ This thing is vengeance. It makes no sense. This is not the same woman who committed those crimes. ”
- Pat Robertson- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 128
“ 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- Copy
- 981
“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 244
“ 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- Copy
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“ I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
- 3.3K
“ War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ”
- Georges Clemenceau- Copy
- 498
“ Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ”
- Brendan Gill- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 514
“ One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
- 593
“ 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- Copy
- 406
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2.6K
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