Quotes of Trivial - somelinesforyou

“ Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. ”

- Robert Greene

“ Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. ”

- John Milton

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Henry Miller

“ Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ”

- John Andrew Holmes

“ Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ”

- Mathew Henry

“ People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. ”

- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

“ The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. ”

- George Crabbe

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

- Bob Anderson

“ Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana. ”

- Graham Greene

“ History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. - James Nathan Miller. ”

- James Nathan Miller

“ Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Women are considered deep — why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ To give importance to trifling matters. ”

- John Heywood

“ It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

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

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ There was a period of sort of minor deception. Then the book seemed to be being advertised initially as the official history, and I did object to him saying that. ”

- Nick Mason

“ There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed… ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. ”

- George Jean Nathan

“ There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams. ”

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“ There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind… ”

- Jan Ashford
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