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  • Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

  • Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

    "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.
  • A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

    Horse   Coffee   Beer  
  • I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

  • In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

    Art   Children   Fun  
  • ...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?

  • That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

    Sean O'Casey (1985). “Seven Plays”
  • I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

    Father   Party   Fall  
    Source: www.mirror.co.uk
  • In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

    Life   Art   Beer  
  • Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

    Mother   Pain   Moving  
  • Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

    New York   Mean   Texas  
    1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.
  • Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

    Baby   Children   Mean  
  • There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

    Regret   Anger   Men  
  • I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

  • and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

    C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.21, Harper Collins
  • Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

    Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics
  • You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.

    Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.7, First Avenue Editions
  • There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.

  • Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of passage. It is a gateway to a new manner of living, and a new road on which to walk that leads to immortality and eternal life. It was never intended as a dead end. It was intended to open a glorious and wonderful way of life to all who would walk in obedience to the commandments of God.

    Father   Baptism   Church  
  • Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.

  • Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

    Mean   Technology   Toys  
    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

    Thoughtful   Lakes   Sea  
  • Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

  • A joke is a very serious thing.

  • For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the seriousness of a church-goer, or the long faces of so-called religious people in the world of the Bauls. They love laughter, they love fun. They enjoy small things with tremendous respect. Ordinarily, religions are very long-faced, very sombre, serious, because they have to be - they are against life.

  • It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

  • One must speak about serious things seriously.

    Anton Chekhov's letter to A.N. Pleshcheev, September 9, 1888.
  • Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

  • Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.

    Suicide   Pain   Suicidal  
  • Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

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