The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous,… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“Rejuveniles can be moral, political, religious, and also frivolous, impractical, and off-the-charts silly.” — Christopher Noxon Copy Share Image
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. — Martial Copy Share Image
Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and… — Gilles Menage Copy Share Image
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the major overriding issues of the day, to deal with frivolous lawsuits. I think it creates a… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that. — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or… — Marcia Cross Copy Share Image
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for… — Saul Griffith Copy Share Image
Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world.… — Laura Harring Copy Share Image
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