Seriousness Quotes

• A joke is a very serious thing.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Humorous, Serious Things

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• Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pleasure

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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

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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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• A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

  Horace

  Humor, Matter, Jest

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

  Donald Cargill

  Goes On

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

  Leonard Cohen

  Opposites, Renunciation

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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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• 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

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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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• Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

  Sean O'Casey

  Laughter, Wine, Men

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• Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Thinking, Hair

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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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• Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Theologian, Dose, Ultimate

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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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• 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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• Every man is grave alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Graves, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.268, Harvard University Press

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• I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mad, Mind, Normal

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

  Paul Simon

  Humor, Special, Littles

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