One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.
~ Dennis Farina
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
~ Ad Reinhardt
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
~ Vladimir Lenin
In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
~ Louis Adolphe Thiers
I take friendship very seriously.
~ Wole Soyinka
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
~ Charles Kettering
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~ Oscar Wilde
I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.
~ Edward Hirsch
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
~ H. L. Mencken
