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

Aldous Huxley

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.

Henry Timrod

The service was uplifting, it was solemn, ... It helped answer some questions in the context of, 'What can I do?' .

John Lind

It's very solemn. You don't want to look too happy. You don't want to show how happy you are because you know how devastated they are.

Rick Dudley

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

A. J. Liebling

The idea, basically, is for there to be a glow hovering high over the head of the spectator, and it's way beyond where you can reach, and you don't fully understand where it's coming from. It creates a very solemn effect.

Charles Brownell

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.

Ambrose Bierce

There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth.

Luis Munoz marin

The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful power to prevent attack.

David Almacy

Obviously, there's a lot of crying and a lot of hugging, a lot of solemn remembering.

Rick Kaufman

ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.

Ambrose Bierce

Eliminating poliomyelitis is a solemn promise made by the Chinese government to the international society.

Qi Xiaoqiu

[It caught on and has stuck, to musicians' amusement and American audiences' unfazed pleasure.] I'd like to say it's used because of its air of solemn ceremony, ... But honestly, I think it's the cannon and the bells.

Keith Lockhart

Apparently, the hard facts of war need not inconvenience the Senate at this time. And the solemn duties that war imposes on us can be postponed indefinitely.

Arizona Republican

Being much troubled to see the falseness of the constitution of the Church of England, I had like to have turned Separatist. Whereupon I kept a day of solemn humiliation and pondering of the thing; this scripture was brought unto me-he that denies Jesus Christ to be come in the flesh is antichrist.

Anne Hutchinson

That is a very solemn time. People will walk the track, looking at the candles, and remember survivors and those who were lost.

Donna Parsons

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

Mark Twain

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

Olusegun Obasanjo

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

Ambrose Bierce

I wasn't surprised, but it's shocking that people would show up at a solemn occasion for no other motivation but hate.

John Lutsch

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

Olive Schreiner

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Lionel Strachey

SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are attached. Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. Some of the smaller sects have no sacraments at all -- for which mean economy they will indubitable be damned.

Ambrose Bierce

The challenge from Day 1 has always been: how do you accommodate both the sacred and the everyday on this site. The memorial needs to function as a solemn and sacred kind of place, while the whole site needs to become part of the city again.

Robert Yaro

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

Arthur Henderson

We're just trying to show honor and respect for families. I was appalled when I read about these protests, that they'd use a solemn occasion like this as a forum for their views.

John Lutsch

While this is a sad and solemn time for many, the funeral of a pope is a global event and his passing will have ramifications for people around the world.

Chris Cramer

The construction of the memorial and memorial museum will begin in early 2006 and conclude by Sept. 11, 2009, ... rest assured, we will not let one person, one entity or one constituency prevent us from fulfilling this solemn obligation.

John Cahill

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

Don Herold

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as, the Dalai Lama of Thibet; the Moogum of M'bwango; the temple of Apes in Ceylon; the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt; the Mufti of Moosh; the hair of the dog that bit Noah, etc. All things are either sacred or profane. The former .

Ambrose Bierce

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

Queen Victoria

QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated. Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me! Stumpo Gaker.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, 'He presided at the piccolo.' The Headliner, holding the copy in hand, Read with a solemn face: 'The music was very uncommonly grand -- The best that was every provided, For our townsman Brown presided At the organ with skil.

Ambrose Bierce

OPPOSE, v. To assist with obstructions and objections. How lonely he who thinks to vex With bandinage the Solemn Sex! Of levity, Mere Man, beware; None but the Grave deserve the Unfair. Percy P. Orminder.

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Bill Owens