Serious Quotes

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  My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  Jack Benny

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

  Arthur Miller

  New York, Lines, May

  1989 In The Times,11 Jan.

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

  Niels Bohr

  Laughter, Laughing, Quantum Mechanics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• No human thing is of serious importance.

  Plato

  Plato, Worry, Anxiety

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.489, Xist Publishing

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• I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

  Joni Mitchell

  Serious Person, Reputation, Persons

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• I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Taken, Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Leadership, Football

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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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• Love is a serious mental disease.

  Plato

  Love, Plato, Romance

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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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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

  Lester Bangs

  Art, Mistake, Firsts

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.115, Anchor

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• Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

  Mike Leonard

  Life, Humorous, Taken

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Thinking, Life And Death

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

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

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Seriousness, Do The Best

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Father, Reading, Eye

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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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• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Change

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

  Tom Robbins

  Making Love, Bed, Alarms

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.5, Bantam

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• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sad, Laughter, Ex Boyfriend

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• A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Real, Issues

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Believe, Men

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