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Quote:Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.[Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote:There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:I figured out why I'm not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.[Dave Barry]

Quote:On the Japanese news, if the announcers had happy faces and perky voices, I knew that meant good news, such as that Japanese scientists had discovered a way to make VCR's even more difficult for Americans to program; whereas if the announcers had serious voices and frowny faces, it meant bad news, such as the worsening eel shortage.[Dave Barry]

Quote:I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.[William F. Buckley]

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

Quote:Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.[Aristotle]

Quote:There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.[Albert Camus]

Quote:Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.[Elbert Hubbard]

Quote:Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.[Rudyard Kipling]

Quote:No human thing is of serious importance.[Plato]

Quote:I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. [Charles De Gaulle]

Quote:I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. [Charles De Gaulle]

Quote:War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. [Georges Clemenceau]

Quote:One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. [German Proverb]

Quote:Life is too important to take seriously. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider]

Quote:Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. [Aristotle]

Quote:Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. [Ecclesiastes]



Definitions of: serious

Definition: Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.

Definition: Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.

Definition: Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.

Definition: Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.

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