A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. — Horace Copy Share Image
If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way. — Vanessa Friedman Copy Share Image
Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair. — Conrad Hyers Copy Share Image
I have played with seriousness and in a professional way for my country. — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.” — John Cooper Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both… — Dmitriy Ustinov Copy Share Image
Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I… — Aaron Staton Copy Share Image
“A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the… — John O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [ Writer’s Digest Interview… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Me being silly, funny and goofy isn't immaturity, It's the way I express myself. I know when & how to stop at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“This showed once again that everyone had something different to lose in this battle. Some were concerned for their lives, and some… — Kai Meyer Copy Share Image
Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a… — Adam Bellow Copy Share Image
In all things you yourself must be an example of good behavior. Be sincere and serious in your teaching. Use sound words… — Bible Copy Share Image
LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto… — George Will Copy Share Image
I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The thought is still there, but the seriousness of it comes and goes.” — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
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