“ Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations. ”
- Richard Gilman- Copy
- 2.5K
“ We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ”
- Wernher Von Braun- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 849
“ But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 2.9K
“ What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? - King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 402
“ I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously. ”
- Barbara Hershey- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 593
“ There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
- 429
“ Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire. ”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Always do something impossible right at the beginning of the show?. Swallow a sword, tie yourself in a knot, defy gravity. Do what the audience knows it could never do no matter how hard it tries. After that you'll have them eating out of your hand. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I believe he's grasped the gravity of the situation. I won't talk about our conversation (Sunday) morning but I believe in having this conversation, I believe he knows how grave it is and I think he knows how important it is and he's trying to work through this. ”
- Orrin Hatch- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 978
“ A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness. ”
- Horace- Copy
- 3K
“ Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ”
- Heraclitus- Copy
- 2K
“ Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously. ”
- Mariah Carey- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
- 4K
“ Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ”
- Brendan Gill- Copy
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