Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Ernest Hemingway

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
Barack Obama

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Norman Vincent Peale

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck

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

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Henry Miller

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. Mencken

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
Paul McCartney

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana