(2008 quotes found)
“If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price”
Rudyard Kipling
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself”
Salvador Dalí
“No human thing is of serious importance”
Plato
“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.”
Vaclav Havel
“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”
Colin Powell
“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.”
Warren Buffett
“To think of shadows is a serious thing.”
Victor Hugo
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“If anyone ever saw me dance. THey'd have trouble taking me seriously.”
Christina Ricci
“I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”
Yoko Ono
