Weighty Quotes

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Government is at best but an expedient;

but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought;

it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.