People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight, From Life's glad morning to its solemn night; Yet, through the dear Lord's love,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I have achieved the 'sacred' pilgrimage to Ktaadn MT - exceeding all my expectations so far that I am sort of helpless… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While… — Mazie Hirono Copy Share Image
Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“Days" Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image