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Letter "S" » Seriousness
«It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Seriousness
| Keywords:
college student, itched, itches, itching, monkey, seriousness, student, The Monkey, wears
«Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Laughter,
Seriousness
| Keywords:
consistently, laugh at, ridiculous, runs, seriously
«It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Humor,
Seriousness
| Keywords:
are, curious, fact, is a, never, people, peopled, seriously, take, taken over, taking over, that, themselves, they, trivial, when
«Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Seriousness,
Shallowness
| Keywords:
refuge, seriousness, shallow, shallower, shallowest, shallows
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