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title: "41 Serious things Quotes by 40 authors"
description: "Browse 41 Serious things quotes by 40 authors. Discover the best Serious things sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79f/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_baby_playing-as-children-means-playing-is-the_2316395.png"
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> [Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/playing-as-children-means-playing-is-the-most-serious-thing-in-the/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [ If Boris \[Johnson\] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rupert-murdoch/if-boris-johnson-backtracks-on-serious-things-there-ll-be-another/)

[Rupert Murdoch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rupert-murdoch/)

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> [One must speak about serious things seriously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/one-must-speak-about-serious-things-seriously/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

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> [Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-l-moody/prayer-is-a-serious-thing-we-may-be-taken-at-our-words/)

[Dwight L. Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-l-moody/)

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> [Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-schuerholz/irritation-i-m-too-old-to-get-angry-anger-that-s-an-emotion-for-more/)

[John Schuerholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-schuerholz/)

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> [Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-wentworth/money-s-a-very-serious-thing-especially-when-you-haven-t-got-any/)

[Patricia Wentworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-wentworth/)

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> [Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carrey/everything-can-be-made-fun-of-the-most-serious-things-are-ripe-for/)

[Jim Carrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carrey/)

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> [Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/respect-is-a-serious-thing-in-him-who-feels-it-and-the-height-of/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

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> [Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/our-rash-faults-make-trivial-price-of-serious-thing-we-have-not/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selena/i-love-acting-and-that-s-my-passion-so-i-would-love-to-do-more-movies/)

[Selena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selena/)

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> [Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-davis/revolution-is-a-serious-thing-the-most-serious-thing-about-a-2/)

[Angela Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-davis/)

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> [It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-beck/it-seems-to-me-at-this-moment-that-laughing-is-a-serious-thing-that/)

[Martha Beck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-beck/)

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> [In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-h-auden/in-the-end-art-is-small-beer-the-really-serious-things-are-earning/)

[W. H. Auden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-h-auden/)

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> [I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldo-leopold/i-confess-my-own-leisure-to-be-spent-entirely-in-search-of-adventure/)

[Aldo Leopold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldo-leopold/)

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> [That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-o-casey/that-s-the-irish-all-over-they-treat-a-joke-as-a-serious-thing-and-a/)

[Sean O'Casey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-o-casey/)

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> [Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/anybody-is-qualified-according-to-everybody-for-giving-opinions-upon/)

[Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/)

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> [You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-mandela/you-sharpen-your-ideas-by-reducing-yourself-to-the-level-of-the/)

[Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-mandela/)

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> [There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coulton/there-s-something-about-comedy-funny-things-that-people-want-to-pass/)

[Jonathan Coulton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coulton/)

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> [The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/the-city-seems-so-much-more-in-earnest-its-business-its-rush-its-roar/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

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> [There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-levin-becker/there-is-no-you-in-newvillager-but-there-is-a-we-your-job-thenceforth/)

Daniel Levin Becker

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> [I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love… So many people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-faulkner/i-think-the-serious-things-really-are-the-things-that-make-for/)

[William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-faulkner/)

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> [I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-nettles/i-ve-not-really-had-a-bad-christmas-apart-from-serious-things-like/)

[John Nettles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-nettles/)

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> [On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-maher/on-the-show-i-do-a-very-serious-thing-and-a-lot-of-people-have-a-hard/)

[Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-maher/)

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> [And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shatner/and-that-works-for-me-so-that-if-this-is-it-you-better-take-it-at-its/)

[William Shatner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shatner/)

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> [Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/putting-a-man-in-space-is-a-stunt-the-man-can-do-no-more-than-an/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

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> [Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/collaborating-with-the-musical-genius-of-our-time-in-some-ways-with/)

[Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/)

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> [Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/pythagoras-asks-that-we-not-let-a-friend-go-lightly-for-whatever/)

[Thomas Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-moore/)

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> [For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/for-the-baul-life-is-not-a-serious-thing-it-is-fun-it-is-laughter-it/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-parry-liddon/i-get-some-very-fierce-anonymous-letters-about-the-athanasian-creed/)

[Henry Parry Liddon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-parry-liddon/)

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> [In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/in-every-man-there-is-a-hidden-child-which-is-called-the-urge-to/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

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> [Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-b-hinckley/baptism-into-this-church-is-a-serious-thing-it-represents-a-covenant/)

[Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-b-hinckley/)

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> [Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/serious-things-cannot-be-understood-without-laughable-things-nor/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-russell/yet-compared-with-the-serious-things-of-life-fishing-is-after-all/)

[Harold Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-russell/)

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> [I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-michel-jarre-2/i-think-that-you-have-to-seriously-have-fun-or-taking-serious-things/)

Jean Michel Jarre

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> [I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-yves-cousteau/i-was-playing-when-i-invented-the-aqualung-i-think-play-is-the-most/)

[Jacques Yves Cousteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-yves-cousteau/)

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> [There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-b-hinckley/there-is-another-serious-thing-to-which-many-young-men-become/)

[Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-b-hinckley/)

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> [Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/great-use-they-have-when-in-the-hands-of-one-like-me-who-understands/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

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> [When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-q/when-you-come-to-america-it-s-a-very-serious-thing-it-s-not-like-you/)

[Maggie Q](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-q/)

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> [People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-and-the-diamonds/people-are-complex-and-i-think-it-s-a-huge-element-of-what-i-do/)

[Marina and the Diamonds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-and-the-diamonds/)

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> [...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-daumal/the-most-serious-thing-and-the-strangest-is-that-we-are-afraid-to-the/)

[Rene Daumal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-daumal/)

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