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- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. — Max Beerbohm
- To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute
- The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality. — George Benson
- You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
- I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy
- As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has… — Gregory of Nyssa
- There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite… — Niels Bohr
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with… — George Eliot
- Books are a triviality. Life alone is great. — Thomas Carlyle
- A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be… — Walter Gropius
- What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? — Annie Dillard