May Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Petty Stills Vexation
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
What seems like the most embarrassing or awfulàmomentàis often theàmost petty and trivial one. — Jayden Hayes Copy Share Image
If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
They've come up with some sort of fine or something, or some sort of 'Notice of Apparent Liability.' They're after me again...I don't care… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
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You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image