He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

I’m not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.

I’m not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it’s the only way you’ll get anywhere

I Was Just Such An Erratic, Wild Personality….When You Finally Find Someone To Listen To You After Years Of Not Being Taken Seriously, You Hold That Sh*T To Your Heart

The promotion of “self-esteem” in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things – and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about

The left takes its vision seriously – more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called ‘art’ in front of government buildings

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

I think it’s really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It’s such an absurdity to take anything really seriously… I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what’s the story here? Being alive is so weird

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.

As long as I do not take myself too seriously I should not be too badly off.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy, and an objective.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don’t take myself all that seriously.f

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

I still want to be myself, I still want to put my opinions out there or whatever, I just really want people to take my music serious.

It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Life’s too short to take yourself seriously – but it’s just the right length to order dessert.