#serious

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.. ↗

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

#seriousness #perception

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much. ↗

— Travis Barker

#because #down #drum #drum set #i

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#four #grandchildren #guess #husband #i

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#church #dream #good #good time #hope

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#because #bit #expect #fun #having

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#closed #come #concept #confronted #europe

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously. ↗

— William Bennett

#eyes #morality #must #own #presence

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#combating #entire #entire nation #gang #gang violence

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#back #building #changed #get #hit