Serious Things Quotes

• Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

  Harold Russell

  Thoughtful, Lakes, Sea

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• There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Music, Funny Things, People

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• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Mean, Texas

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sincere, Triviality, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.23, Penguin

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• You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.

  Howard Pyle

  Laughter, Thinking, Land

  Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

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• it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Broken, Alive

  Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.28, Beacon Press

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• A joke's a very serious thing.

  Charles Churchill

  Humor, Serious, Jokes

  'The Ghost' (1763) bk. 4, l. 1386

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• Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, Taken, Our Words

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• The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intelligent, Play, Intelligence

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.815, GENERAL PRESS

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• In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Art, Children, Fun

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• Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Children, Mean

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• For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the seriousness of a church-goer, or the long faces of so-called religious people in the world of the Bauls. They love laughter, they love fun. They enjoy small things with tremendous respect. Ordinarily, religions are very long-faced, very sombre, serious, because they have to be - they are against life.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Laughter, Fun

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• Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of passage. It is a gateway to a new manner of living, and a new road on which to walk that leads to immortality and eternal life. It was never intended as a dead end. It was intended to open a glorious and wonderful way of life to all who would walk in obedience to the commandments of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Baptism, Church

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• And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.

  William Shatner

  Attitude, Struggle, Joy

  "How William Shatner Changed the World". Documentary, Sci-Fi, 2005.

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• There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began.

  Daniel Levin Becker

  Mother, Jobs, Gaps

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• Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, Black History Month, Revolution

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• To think of shadows is a serious thing.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Shadow, Serious

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things

  Selena

  Passion, Acting, Serious

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• Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

  Jim Carrey

  Fun, Made, Ripe

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• Our rash faults
  Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
  Not knowing them until we know their grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowing, Faults, Graves

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.53

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• That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

  Sean O'Casey

  Serious, Treats, Jokes

  Sean O'Casey (1985). “Seven Plays”

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• One must speak about serious things seriously.

  Anton Chekhov

  Ideas, Serious, Speak

  Anton Chekhov's letter to A.N. Pleshcheev, September 9, 1888.

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• People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  Maggie Q

  America, Focus, Effort

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Money, Serious, Havens

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