Serious Quotes

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel

Crisis, Mean, Before

Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato

Love, Mental, Disease

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

Work, Religion, Cannot

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, After

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Funny, Laugh

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

War, Jealousy, Nothing

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau

End, Pretty, Means

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing, May, Worth

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus

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

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
Will Rogers

Different, Honest, Ourselves

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
Johnny Depp

Saying, Actor, Catch

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
Nelson Mandela

Mistakes, Long, Made

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Ernest Hemingway

May, Writer, Bloody

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
Hunter S. Thompson

Politics, Around, Trouble

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
Johnny Depp

Food, Republican, Actor

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama

Money, Truth, Small

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Political, Fire

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul

Death, Live, Liberty

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox

Nice, Strange, Guitar

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, Here, Whole

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay

Software, Hardware

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.
Mitt Romney

Around, Idea, State

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Jim Carrey

Life, Beautiful, Alcohol

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Fred Rogers

Work, Learning, Children

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin

Giving, Around, Chance

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

Funny, Comedy, Simply

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
William James

Attitude, Sad, Religious

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

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