Seriousness Quotes

288 Seriousness quotes by 230 unique authors

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college. — P.J. O'Rourke
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living. — James Cash Penney
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down… — Terry Pratchett
The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned… — Robert Redford
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. — Will Rogers
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every… — Will Rogers
Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do… — Adam Sandler
Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes. — Marilyn vos Savant
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. — Albert Schweitzer
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if… — Paul Simon
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. — Oliver Stone
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. — Thomas Szasz
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all… — James Thurber
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. — Gene Tierney
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness. — Anthea Turner
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. — Peter Ustinov
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying. — Kanye West
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. — Oscar Wilde
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness.… — David Foster Wallace
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. — Oscar Wilde
I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does,… — William Faulkner
You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness. — Rainer Maria Rilke
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously — Oscar Wilde
His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have… — Neil Gaiman
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a… — Hermann Hesse

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