“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”

“Man will take anything you like, except warning.”

“You can take everything from me except the freedom to look up at the sky occasionally.”

“People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.”

“I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.”

“No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.”

“Seriously though, some of the feminist advice given to women is borderline psychopathic. You know, like, “Never take ‘no’ for an answer! Always take what you want!””

“Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.”

“"Freedom" awakens your rage against everything that is not you; "egoism" calls you to joy over yourselves, to self-enjoyment.”

“He liked everything about the university except the students.”