Petty Quotes
336 quotes by 283 authors
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
— Walter Bagehot
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of…
— Bono
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The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to…
— Joyce Brothers
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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
— George Carlin
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
— Anton Chekhov
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
— Emile M. Cioran
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My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was…
— Hillary Clinton
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I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
— Walter Annenberg
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.
— Sun Tzu
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Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to…
— Margaret Cho
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Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a…
— Felix Frankfurter
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You cannot live sheltered forever without being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in your own way,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make…
— George Orwell
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We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
— Ouida
Who Wrote These Petty Quotes
283 authors contributed a total of 336 Petty Quotes, led by these top contributors: