#solemn

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#humorous #solemnity #humor

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

— Phoebe Cary

#been #before #comes #ever #home

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. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#broken #doubt #expectancy #flowery #hesitation

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#bestowed #created #faculties #god #him

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis. ↗

— Maria Monk

#cruel #doubts #entertain #express #francis

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

— Olive Schreiner

#inside #outside #ridiculous #sides #solemn

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. ↗

— Henry Adams

#any #axioms #difficult #doctrine #i

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. ↗

— Samuel Alito

#case #judge #law #obligation #only

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#computer #databases #day #fitting #glass

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. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#goes #great #great writer #hustler #loud