A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens. — Charlotte Armstrong 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
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams 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
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
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
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
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
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot… — Adolf Hitler 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It… — John Stuart Mill 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
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
