Petty Quotes · Page 9

Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go…

— Francis Quarles

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

— Bryan Hayes

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing.…

— Michel de Montaigne

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this…

— Bob Dylan

We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays…

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In a crisis, my family puts aside all its petty differences and hatreds... Because a crisis, is a perfect opportunity to create…

— Christopher Titus

According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh…

— Marvin J. Ashton

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

— Thomas Sowell

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who…

— A. Powell Davies

I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a…

— Rick Pitino

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according…

— Joseph Addison

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

— Sammy Hagar

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

— John Dryden

“Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty…

— Cathy Lamb

But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.

— Tom Petty

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature…

— Robert Genn

I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand and serve their nation... really…

— Pete Hegseth

The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams…

— David Foster Wallace

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the…

— Angelina Grimke

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to…

— Elvis Costello