Quotes of Trifling - somelinesforyou

“ I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. ”

- Irvin S. Cobb

“ Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants. ”

- Unknown

“ Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant. ”

- Henry Miller

“ A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. ”

- William James

“ Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody. ”

- Bob Anderson

“ Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. ”

- Richard Ben Sapir

“ Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound. ”

- Jan Morris

“ I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ God always answers in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul. ”

- Unknown

“ Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far. ”

- Euripides

“ Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. ”

- John Ruskin

“ A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. ”

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“ We are minor in everything but our passions. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ We recognize that there are no trivial occurences in life. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead. ”

- Larry Ellison

“ If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. ”

- William Bennett

“ The fact that you have now questioned my sincerity... is regrettable but does not in any way diminish my deep respect for you nor my willingness to find a bipartisan solution to this problem. ”

- Barack Obama

“ From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. ”

- John Updike

“ I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ A puny body weakens the soul. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. ”

- Maude Adams

“ I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself. ”

- Avril Lavigne
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