Top Serious Quotes
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Titus Livius
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
Kim Dae Jung
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Harrison Ford
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.
Helen Reddy
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Titus Livius 
88% of people like this quote
So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
Kim Dae Jung
81% of people like this quote
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Harrison Ford
80% of people like this quote
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.
Helen Reddy
78% of people like this quote
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
75% of people like this quote
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
John Fowles
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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
Werner Heisenberg
73% of people like this quote
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
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Popular Serious Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry David ThoreauGeorge Bernard ShawBenjamin FranklinVictor HugoWinston ChurchillSamuel Butler PlatoWill RogersAlbert Camus HoraceMichel de MontaigneWilliam JamesGeorge OrwellDwight D. Eisenhower
Marilyn vos SavantErnest HemingwayVirginia WoolfLord ChesterfieldDonald RumsfeldCharles DickensJim CarreyWilliam Butler YeatsAlbert SchweitzerLenny KravitzGene TierneyWoodrow WilsonMeryl StreepBob WoodwardArthur Erickson
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