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Solemn Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous,…
- SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat…
- OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
- YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand…
More Solemn Quotes
- Serious journalism need not be solemn. — Russell Baker
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams
- To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant
- I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness… — George W. Bush
- While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from… — Lewis Carroll
- We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C.S. Lewis
- I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. — Charles Spurgeon
- The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not… — Alexander Hamilton
- To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret… — Ole Hallesby
- No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional… — Hugo Black