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

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

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

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

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
Samuel Goldwyn

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

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis

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

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Bette Davis

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

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

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

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
Tim Allen