Solemnness Quotes & Sayings

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. — Ben Hecht

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work. — Gerhard Schroder

We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. — Thomas Jefferson

The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables. — Charles Lamb

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. — Robert W. Chambers

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be in any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without him. All delicacies without Christ are but as a funeral banquet. Where the master of the feast is away, there is nothing but solemnness. What is all without Christ? I say the joys of heaven are not the joys of heaven without Christ; he is the very heaven of heaven. — Richard Sibbes