Quotes about Solemn

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. Votes: 6

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. Votes: 6

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. Votes: 6

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. Votes: 6

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. Votes: 6

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. Votes: 6

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. Votes: 6

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. Votes: 6

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. Votes: 6

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. Votes: 6

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. Votes: 6

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. Votes: 4

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. Votes: 4

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Votes: 4

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. Votes: 4

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before. Votes: 4

THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION. Votes: 4

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. Votes: 4

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves. Votes: 4

To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most. Votes: 4

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Votes: 4

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile. Votes: 4

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions. Votes: 4

Solemn silence makes noble worship. Votes: 3

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy. Votes: 3

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules. Votes: 3

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral. Votes: 3

Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: "Even this shall pass away." Votes: 3

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. Votes: 2

Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth. Votes: 2

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. Votes: 2

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. Votes: 2

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader. Votes: 2

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.' Votes: 2

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. Votes: 2

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. Votes: 2

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. Votes: 2

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. Votes: 2

Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. Votes: 2

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. Votes: 2

When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments. Votes: 2

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious. Votes: 2

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty. Votes: 2

A name is a solemn thing ... Votes: 0

Great design is serious, not solemn Votes: 0

Serious journalism need not be solemn. Votes: 0

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn. Votes: 0

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind. Votes: 0

Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire. Votes: 0

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. Votes: 0

We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play. Votes: 0

What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say? Votes: 0

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. Votes: 0

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind Votes: 0

In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur. Votes: 0

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. Votes: 0

Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens. Votes: 0

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. Votes: 0

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life. Votes: 0

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. Votes: 0

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. Votes: 0

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge Votes: 0

Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it. Votes: 0

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat. Votes: 0

Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. Votes: 0

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. Votes: 0

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Votes: 0

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes. Votes: 0

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. Votes: 0

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. Votes: 0

On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours. Votes: 0

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. Votes: 0

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. Votes: 0

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath. Votes: 0

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong. Votes: 0

Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force. Votes: 0

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect. Votes: 0

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. Votes: 0

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Votes: 0

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. Votes: 0

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter. Votes: 0

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. Votes: 0

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. Votes: 0

When you take a solemn oath your heart and soul listens, then perception of consciousness and unity comes. Votes: 0

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. Votes: 0

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves. Votes: 0

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don't want to be a man. Votes: 0

A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. Votes: 0

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot. Votes: 0

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them. Votes: 0

Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan. Votes: 0

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word. Votes: 0

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. Votes: 0

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. Votes: 0

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely. Votes: 0

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them. Votes: 0

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell. Votes: 0

Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away. Votes: 0

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots Votes: 0

It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay. Votes: 0

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? Votes: 0

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. Votes: 0

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with. Votes: 0

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. Votes: 0

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls. Votes: 0

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible. Votes: 0

Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security. Votes: 0

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul. Votes: 0

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb. Votes: 0

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. Votes: 0

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first. Votes: 0

Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't. Votes: 0

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago. Votes: 0

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will? Votes: 0

The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out. Votes: 0

The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last. Votes: 0

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty. Votes: 0

It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives. Votes: 0

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. Votes: 0

But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice. Votes: 0

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. Votes: 0

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. Votes: 0

I bet you're the type of guy not afraid of anything, huh?Oh, no, there are things that terrify me. Like what? Muppets, came his solemn reply. Votes: 0

Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all. Votes: 0

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful. Votes: 0

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt. Votes: 0

The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world drips its way in. Votes: 0

Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes. Votes: 0

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. Votes: 0

Sweet is the day of sacred rest; No mortal cares shall seize my breast; O may my heart in tune be found Like David's harp of solemn sound. Votes: 0

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces. Votes: 0

The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty! Votes: 0

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself! Votes: 0

Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee. Votes: 0

Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more! Votes: 0

if you will always give great ears to the cacophony of the masses instead of the solemn voice of your true purpose, you will never leave a distinctive footprint Votes: 0

I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately. Votes: 0

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs. Votes: 0

Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying. Votes: 0

Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon. Votes: 0

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn. Votes: 0

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat. Votes: 0

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers. Votes: 0

Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel. Votes: 0

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics. Votes: 0

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race. Votes: 0

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning. Votes: 0

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt. Votes: 0

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. Votes: 0

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times. Votes: 0

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity. Votes: 0

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. Votes: 0

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. Votes: 0

Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings. Votes: 0

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down. Votes: 0

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery. Votes: 0

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth? Votes: 0

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future. Votes: 0

Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in air wild birds are calling, Nature's solemn hymn. Votes: 0

The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point. Votes: 0

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship. Votes: 0

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities. Votes: 0

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly. Votes: 0

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears. Votes: 0

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears. Votes: 0

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality. Votes: 0

O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance! Votes: 0

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all. Votes: 0

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion. Votes: 0

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. Votes: 0

It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms. Votes: 0

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. Votes: 0

The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness. Votes: 0

Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success. Votes: 0