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Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead. — Flip Wilson
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. — Henny Youngman
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help… — Randy Pausch
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Joanna Russ
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. — Sam Levenson
but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking… — Jose Saramago
Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of… — Sherwood Anderson
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be… — Henry David Thoreau
Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think… — Stephen Dunn
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest… — Susan B. Anthony
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest. — John Muir
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it… — Alice Walker
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform… — Michel de Montaigne
A word in earnest is as good as a speech. — Charles Dickens
Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt… — John Keats
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. — John Keats
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the… — John Steinbeck
He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons. — P.G. Wodehouse
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was… — Curtis Sittenfeld
With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his… — Walter de La Mare
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. — Christopher Morley

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