“ The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. ”
- Dorothy Nevill- Copy
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“ A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martialis- Copy
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“ It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
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“ I think the adjective "post-modernist" really means "mannerist." Books about books is fun but frivolous. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ happiness is not a frivolous, expendable luxury… But we have to be willing to pursue it. Ultimately, genuine happiness can only be recognized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. ”
- Sarah Ban Breathnach- Copy
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“ What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Let us not interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. ”
- Hesiod- Copy
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“ In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips, and they were called jokes or funnies. The word comics developed later, but it is that that began to give the name - the ambience of comics - the feeling of being a frivolous kind of art-form. ”
- Will Eisner- Copy
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“ The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may. ”
- Jack Holland- Copy
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“ Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side. ”
- David Lehman- Copy
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