Quotes of Solemnity - somelinesforyou

“ Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness. ”

- Confucius

“ We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ”

- Wernher Von Braun

“ There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. ”

- Kofi Annan

“ There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity. ”

- Josh Billings

“ It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ You can't blame gravity for falling in love. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. ”

- Confucius

“ To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue… gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. ”

- Confucius

“ Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous. ”

- Corita Kent

“ Seriousness is stupidity sent to college. ”

- Gandhi

“ Be a rebel against gravity: Skip! ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it. ”

- Confucius

“ Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I've been noticing gravity since I was very young. ”

- Cameron Diaz

“ Human DNA spreading out from gravity's steep well like an oilslick. ”

- William Gibson

“ Moreover, there is no difference between the earth's centers of gravity and magnitude. ”

- Nicolaus Copernicus

“ You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. ”

- Alan Cohen

“ In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ”

- Marianne Moore

“ To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. ”

- Confucius

“ Because of its tremendous solemnity, death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. ”

- Ezra

“ His Christianity was muscular. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ”

- Heraclitus

“ Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ”

- Dame Margot Fonteyn
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