Paltry Quotes

55 quotes by 49 authors

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in… — Bob Beauprez
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to… — Marcus Aurelius
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England… — William Cowper
Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several… — Corey Taylor
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. — Sam Waterston
It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. — David Gilmour
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God… — Andre Breton
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales… — Thomas Paine
I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic… — Fanny Kemble
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his… — Demosthenes
Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming… — Lottie Moon
It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake… — Isak Dinesen
Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his… — Edward R. Murrow
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot… — Joseph Howe
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. — D. H. Lawrence
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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