The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. — Nicholas Murray Butler
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. — Christopher Morley
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. — Aristotle
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. — Oscar Wilde
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. — Orson Welles
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke — Hermann Hesse
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. — Katherine Mansfield
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. — William Shakespeare
Sincerity is the way to heaven. — Mencius
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. — Peter Ustinov
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. — Heraclitus
Importance Of Being Earnest Image Quotes
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
You Are Important Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. — Mark Twain
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. — Ramakrishna
Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. — A. A. Milne
You need to associate with people who inspire you,
people that challenge you to raise higher,
people that make you better.
Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth.
Your destiny is too important. — Joel Osteen
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.
Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep pressing forward. So all those warriors out there – be encouraged — Kai Greene
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. — Jim Morrison
Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. — Carol S. Dweck
I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around. — Russell Means
Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections. — Julius Nyerere
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. — Peter Drucker
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. — Maya Angelou
Width of life is more important than length of life. — Avicenna
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. — Hippocrates
Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there. — DJ Khaled
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. — Unknown
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
Earnest Quotes
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes. — Martin Luther
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel. — John Calvin
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. — John Knox
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. — William Lloyd Garrison
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them. — Dwight L. Moody
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us. — Philip Neri
You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do not mean that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I mean that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms. — Gichin Funakoshi
Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective. — Patrick Soon-Shiong
The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values. — Howard Zinn
Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change. — Judith Curry
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density. — John L. Phillips
Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones. — Friedrich August von Hayek
So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm. — John W. Thompson
Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about things that matter.
Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go. — Jason Dufner
Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter. — Daniel Levitin
This is an ongoing threat from a variety of sources around the world. And actually I think it works both ways. I'm not privy to it, but I think all of the various country that have the ability are invading each other's computers all the time. But we have to protect our data. It's very important. — Rand Paul
It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents. — James S. Coleman
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. — Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? — Oscar Wilde
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. — Oscar Wilde
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. — Oscar Wilde
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. — Oscar Wilde
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. — Oscar Wilde
Direction is so much more important than speed.
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. — Oscar Wilde
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. — Oscar Wilde
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. — Oscar Wilde
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. — Oscar Wilde
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else. — Oscar Wilde
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. — Oscar Wilde
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. — Oscar Wilde
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present. — Oscar Wilde
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. — Oscar Wilde
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. — Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! — Oscar Wilde
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. — Oscar Wilde
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive. — Oscar Wilde
A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing. — George Bernard Shaw
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. — Oscar Wilde
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land. — Oscar Wilde
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. — Oscar Wilde
LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire? — Oscar Wilde
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. — Oscar Wilde
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression — Oscar Wilde
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. — Oscar Wilde
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. — Oscar Wilde
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. — Oscar Wilde
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same! — Oscar Wilde
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. — Oscar Wilde
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing. — Oscar Wilde
There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness. — John Green
I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center. — Anna Camp
You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God! — Aiden Wilson Tozer
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing. — V. S. Naipaul
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