Serious Quotes

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Alan Watts Quote - Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. Free

Alan Watts

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Free

Oscar Wilde

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Alan Watts Quote - What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. Free

Alan Watts

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. Free

Oscar Wilde

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Free

Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Adam Sandler Quote - Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle. Free

Adam Sandler

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Aldous Huxley Quote - But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. Free

Aldous Huxley

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Alexander Hamilton Quote - A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it. Free

Alexander Hamilton

A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.

Aldous Huxley Quote - The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information. Free

Aldous Huxley

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

Alexander Graham Bell Quote - There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end. Free

Alexander Graham Bell

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

Alexander The Great Quote - Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. Free

Alexander The Great

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Alexander Hamilton Quote - The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. Free

Alexander Hamilton

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

Alexander The Great Quote - In the end, when it’s over, all that matters is what you’ve done. Free

Alexander The Great

In the end, when it’s over, all that matters is what you’ve done.

Alexander Hamilton Quote - The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. Free

Alexander Hamilton

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton Quote - Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. Free

Alexander Hamilton

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Andrew Carnegie Quote - We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him. Free

Andrew Carnegie

We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.

Anthony Bourdain Quote - Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have. Free

Anthony Bourdain

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.

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