These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
“Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Greatness cannot be attained by wasting time on frivolities of life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he… — Stefano Pilati Copy Share Image
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it.… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different.… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
