Quotes About Trivial

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.

Too much information about nothing.

Much ado about nothing.

A leaner action rend us. What's amiss, May it be gently heard. When we debate Our trivial difference loud, we do commit Murther in healing wounds.

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness.

That doesn't sound like a school trivia night," said Mrs. Patty Ponder to Marie Antoinette. "That sounds like a riot." The cat didn't respond. She was dozing on the couch and found school trivia nights to be trivial.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

I squinted and looked around, and the intensity of the light hurt my eyes. I wished I'd brought sunglasses. But I also wished I'd brought a bazooka, or at least a baseball bat, so the glasses seemed a little bit trivial. I

Don't think that you were born to gain this or that level of comfort. You were born to study pain and the causes of pain, and to follow the practice that frees you from pain. This is the most important thing there is. Everything else is trivial and unimportant. All that's important lies with the practice.

We tend to underestimate the power of banality.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Typical of their mania for the trivial, their legalistic fascination with documents, proclamations, ads.

Anyway, it's hardly a problem worth worrying about.

Inezie ci consolano perché inezie ci affliggono.»

Hablaron de cosas muy triviales, con perfecta discreción de personas maduras.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

Mister didn't come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant company when I was at home and not moving around too much, except when he didn't, in which case he went rambling

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality

Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon. Our life looks trivial, and we shun to record it. Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference. "Yonder uplands are rich pasturage, and my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field," says the querulous farmer, "only holds the world together.