“ Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ”
- Henry Clay- Copy
- 1.8K
“ You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. ”
- Demosthenes- Copy
- 3K
“ No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. ”
- Channing Pollock- Copy
- 477
“ The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
- 3.3K
“ For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is… ”
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess- Copy
- 757
“ There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences, as there is no hair so small but it casts its shadow. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life. ”
- Ralph Ransom- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works, which serve our pot and bag alone. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 2.5K
“ We cannot see that enormous apparatus of force that the modern orchestra represents without feeling the most profound and total disillusion at the paltry acoustic results. Do you know of any sight more ridiculous than that of twenty men furiously bent on redoubling the mewing of a violin? ”
- Luigi Russolo- Copy
- 1.8K
“ My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ”
- Joseph Howe- Copy
- 76
“ To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake I am conscious of having won to the full… ”
- Andre Breton- Copy
- 1.1K
“ There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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