God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter. — Sydney J. Harris 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
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. — Olive Schreiner 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
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams 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
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep… — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be… — Francois-Noel Babeuf Copy Share Image
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me.… — John Barlas Copy Share Image
When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain't right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have been told . . . that this life is a necessary part in the course of progression designed by our… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell. — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
