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
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. — Gore Vidal 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
How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche. — Romola Garai 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
It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things.… — Thomas a Kempis 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
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. — Philip Treacy 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
This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve.… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. — Anonymous 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
I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
