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Image of Horace
Joking apart, now let us be serious.
- Horace
Collection: Serious
Image of Miuccia Prada
My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.
- Miuccia Prada
Collection: Serious
Image of Susan Sontag
The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Serious
Image of Toni Morrison
Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
- Toni Morrison
Collection: Serious
Image of Michel de Montaigne
Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
- Michel de Montaigne
Collection: Serious
Image of David Nicholls
At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.
- David Nicholls
Collection: Serious
Image of William Shakespeare
There is nothing serious in Mortality
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Serious
Image of Edward Abbey
When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Serious
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Serious
Image of Niels Bohr
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
- Niels Bohr
Collection: Serious
Image of R. C. Sproul
God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
- R. C. Sproul
Collection: Serious
Image of Wislawa Szymborska
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
- Wislawa Szymborska
Collection: Serious
Image of Malcolm Muggeridge
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Collection: Serious
Image of Malcolm Muggeridge
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Collection: Serious
Image of Willie Nelson
There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.
- Willie Nelson
Collection: Serious
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Serious
Image of Lily Tomlin
Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.
- Lily Tomlin
Collection: Serious
Image of Arthur Rimbaud
No one's serious at seventeen.
- Arthur Rimbaud
Collection: Serious
Image of Niels Bohr
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
- Niels Bohr
Collection: Serious
Image of Kiera Cass
It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.
- Kiera Cass
Collection: Serious
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Serious
Image of Hippocrates
It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
- Hippocrates
Collection: Serious
Image of Noam Chomsky
Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Serious
Image of Hillary Clinton
I have generally not responded to sexism if it's about me. And I have responded if it's about somebody else, because if women in general are being degraded, are being dismissed, then I can respond in a way that demonstrates I'm not taking it personally but I'm really serious about rejecting that kind of behavior.
- Hillary Clinton
Collection: Serious
Image of Anthony Burgess
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
- Anthony Burgess
Collection: Serious
Image of Chaka Khan
I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.
- Chaka Khan
Collection: Serious
Image of Jeff Cooper
On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.
- Jeff Cooper
Collection: Serious
Image of Mason Cooley
Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Serious
Image of Salvador Dali
Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?
- Salvador Dali
Collection: Serious
Image of J. M. Coetzee
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
- J. M. Coetzee
Collection: Serious
Image of Don DeLillo
Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
- Don DeLillo
Collection: Serious
Image of Edsger Dijkstra
Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
- Edsger Dijkstra
Collection: Serious
Image of Eminem
It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.
- Eminem
Collection: Serious
Image of Judd Apatow
Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.
- Judd Apatow
Collection: Serious
Image of Joshua Ferris
Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.
- Joshua Ferris
Collection: Serious
Image of T. S. Eliot
Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.
- T. S. Eliot
Collection: Serious
Image of Aaron McGruder
I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there's so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I'm dead serious.
- Aaron McGruder
Collection: Serious
Image of Maya Angelou
You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell."
- Maya Angelou
Collection: Serious
Image of Oliver Goldsmith
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Collection: Serious
Image of John Grisham
I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.
- John Grisham
Collection: Serious
Image of Al Gore
This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.
- Al Gore
Collection: Serious
Image of Michel Gondry
In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.
- Michel Gondry
Collection: Serious
Image of Allen Ginsberg
Everybody's serious but me.
- Allen Ginsberg
Collection: Serious
Image of Eric Hoffer
To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.
- Eric Hoffer
Collection: Serious
Image of Matthew Henry
Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.
- Matthew Henry
Collection: Serious
Image of Nikki Haley
What we are is serious. And you see us in action, so it's not in personas. It's in actions and it's what we do. And that's why Russia was left on an island when it came to Syria. Everyone else isolated them with their connection with Bashar Assad and Iran.
- Nikki Haley
Collection: Serious
Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Collection: Serious