A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules. — Tadashi Suzuki Copy Share Image
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... it would… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical… — Peter Cheeke Copy Share Image
Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous. — Akiva Goldsman Copy Share Image
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
He's the best of us. The best of our best, the best that each of us will ever build or ever love.… — John Steakley Copy Share Image
