Serious journalism need not be solemn.
Russell Baker
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Norman Douglas
Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
Aldous Huxley
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Karl Philipp Moritz