An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON SERIOUSNESS
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Conquer but never triumph.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Dame Margot Fonteyn
Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!
Gertrude The Great
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
Barbara Hershey (1948-, American actress)
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885, American writer)
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another.
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885, American writer)
The more important the title, the more self-important the person, the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle, the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.
Jane O'Reilly
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke (1947-, American journalist)
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)
It is to please herself that the cat purrs.
Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin)
An empty barrel makes a lot of noise.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
Ask and you won't get lost.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
The scholar knows what she lacks knowledge of.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
When you look to the heights, hold on to your hat.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
I'm glad I never feel important, it does complicate life.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand (1804-1876, French novelist)
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
Helen Van Slyke
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946, American author)
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
'Tis the ignorant who boast.
Carmen Sylva
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