Serious Quotes - Page 2

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

Yellow usually means it's not that serious.

A joke is a very serious thing.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

You cannot be serious!

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

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.

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.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

Life is too short to be serious

Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.