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Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.
— Oscar W. Firkins
Character displays the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.
— Nathan McCall
When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
— Eustace Budgell
The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books.
— Laurie R. King
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
— Eric Hoffer
Jett's artistic talent was as weighty and emphatic as the heavy black makeup she applied to her lips and eyelids.
— Judith Fertig
To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men are not uniform.
— Colleen McCullough
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
— Aristotle.
Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
— John Dryden
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
— Frank Herbert
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
— Peter Ackroyd
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I want to mirror your image in its fullest perfection. Never be blind or too old to uphold your weighty wavering reflection
— Rainer Maria Rilke
As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.
— Suzanne Collins
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
— Vita Sackville-West
These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.
— Charles Spurgeon
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
— Isaac Rosenberg
When all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
— Galen Beckett
Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.
— Francis Bacon
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
— Virginia Woolf
And when it hit him then, something settled in Walker. Settled deep. Something weighty but not heavy. Something warm. Something welcome. This
— Kristen Ashley
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
— Wislawa Szymborska
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
— Seneca The Younger
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
— Seneca The Younger