Seriousness Quotes

• A joke is a very serious thing.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Humorous, Serious Things

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• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Attitude, Belief, Shallow

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.18, New Line Publishing

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• I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Cold Hearted, Serious, Paradox

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• There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

  Niels Bohr

  Laughter, Laughing, Serious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pleasure

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• Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Children

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• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Happiness, Fear

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

  Leonard Cohen

  Opposites, Renunciation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

  Conrad Hyers

  Opposites, Despair

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• Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

  Donald Cargill

  Goes On

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• It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Important, Serious, Sincerity

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• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Laughter, Creativity

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Serious, Do The Best

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Motivational, Work, Views

  Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, December 7, 1935.

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• Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Theologian, Dose, Ultimate

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• Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

  Booth Tarkington

  Experience, Happens

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• Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness.

  Rajneesh

  Long, Joy, Doe

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• Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

  Rajneesh

  Humble, Aquariums, Essentials

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• God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God would not have been able to create the world if he had no sense of humor. God is not serious at all. Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health. Love, laughter, life, they are aspects of the same energy.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Serious, Foundation

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• Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Pick Me Up, Mind

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• Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, College, Stupidity

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.88, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

  Billy Collins

  Self, Differences, Poetry

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• It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, College, Expression

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• I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

  Marie de France

  Love Is, Serious Business, Jest

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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