Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. — Francois Mauriac
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame… — Mark Twain
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on,… — Louis Kronenberger
To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. — Thomas Carlyle
... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also… — John Ruskin
There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. — Harry Blamires
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured. — W. Somerset Maugham
Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl… — William Wordsworth
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew. — William Carlos Williams
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. — Samuel Smiles
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.… — Joyce Carol Oates
Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most… — Frederick Lenz
As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has… — Criss Jami
We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure,… — Criss Jami
It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my… — Helen Hunt
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of… — Bobby Flay
I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant… — Caprice Bourret
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a… — Iain Banks
Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear… — Ricky Jay
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. — Chuck Eddy
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read… — Alexandra Fuller
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per… — Hermann Bondi
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is… — William C. Brown
Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to… — Zelig Pliskin

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