I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. — Alexander Girard Copy Share Image
Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results. — Ilka Chase 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
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. — Edith Wharton 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
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
“You don’t make me sad, but solemn. You impair my incurable frivolity.” — Edouard Levé 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
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
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
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
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
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
I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that,… — Brigham Young 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
“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
You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the… — Jonathan Miller 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
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
The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
