Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being… — Zelig Pliskin
Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your… — Paul Washer
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. — Walter Lippmann
As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great… — James Whistler
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. — Eric Hoffer
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth — Eric Hoffer
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who… — George Steiner
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the… — Walter Pater
We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all… — Joseph Epstein
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in… — Sathya Sai Baba
Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea… — Ben Shahn
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. — Michael J. Gelb
Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial… — Isabelle Eberhardt
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial… — Michael Parkinson
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. — Henry Clay
In war trivial causes produce momentous events. — Julius Caesar
Honestly, I don't want to worry about the trivial feelings here. I have nothing and I still have a far way to go. There's no… — Kim Su-mi
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial. — Jane Jacobs
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is… — Alain Badiou
Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening.… — Sheena Iyengar
I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own… — Henry David Thoreau
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. — John Fowles
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which… — Quentin Crisp

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