Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams Copy Share Image
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“You don’t make me sad, but solemn. You impair my incurable frivolity.” — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn… — Thomas Ken Copy Share Image
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
K. I. N. G, solemn and envy. Ridin' in the Bently they wanna send me, back to the pen. Hope they give… — TI Copy Share Image
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But most where… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy. — William Watson Copy Share Image
On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours. — X. J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
