The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. — Che Guevara 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
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
This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“It is at these troubled periods that frivolity, even license, are most easily understood, "because one enjoys with gusto what tomorrow may… — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
Comedy is such a frivolous world that it can make you addicted to the frivolity, and then a lot of people don't… — Ivo Graham 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
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing,… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin 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
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and… — Karl Lagerfeld 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
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
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts.… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
“Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them,… — Hannah Foster 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
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
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
We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous… Trivial things take up all your time and dull your… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Begin to lay hold of every minute of your life and convert it into something of value to benefit the world. Never… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our… — James Laver Copy Share Image
“The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
What's depressing, in a way, thinking of Margaret Thatcher legacy - and she was no doubt great in many ways - but… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity,… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“We may yet become the first nation to die from a terminal case of frivolity. Other great nations in history have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
