Serious
Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.
Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.
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Serious Quotations
A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill
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
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus
Serious Translations
serious in Afrikaans is erg, belangrik, ernstig
serious in Danish is vigtig, alvorlig
serious in Dutch is erg, ernstig, voornaam, belangrijk
serious in Italian is pesante, serio, grave
serious in Latin is serius, gravis
serious in Spanish is grave, importante, pesado, serio
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