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
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. — Edith Wharton 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
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. — Matthew Arnold 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
“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
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
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure… — Saint Basil 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
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to… — Huston Smith 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
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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
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
“She had debated, in the frivolity of the beginning, whether to build a hole or a tower; a hole, because she was… — Keri Hulme 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
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 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
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
“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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
