#earnest

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#earnest #fun #funny #humor #only

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#behaviour #confounded #distinction #earnestly #i

Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public temptation. ... Chausuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chausuble: And often, I´ve been told, not even to her. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#equality

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#always #been #completely #devoted #earnest

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#daily #earnestly #heart #his #lean

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#dress #early #earnestness #extra #fancy

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#bush #case #democrats #deny #earnestly

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#career #degree #earnestly #fits #himself

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#cooperation #earnest #justice #peace #people