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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened. — Epictetus

What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions, — Ryan Holiday

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. — Madame De Stael

His professed philosophy of "Shandyism" is a defiant frivolity that declines to take the world as seriously as it tries to insist upon. In — Tim Kreider

He was only now outgrowing his playboy phase, groping his way out of frivolity the way others might grope their way out of atheism. — Robert Silverberg

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. — Italo Calvino

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. — Alexander Girard

Olden days cannot be reversed even with the strongest incantation, but fresh days could be invoked to be fruitful in order to stop old fruitless years — Michael Bassey Johnson

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive — Karl Lagerfeld

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea. — John O'Sullivan

It's not about the destination. It's getting there that's the good part.
- Leonard — Morgan Matson

This wasn't a man for frivolity. He was made for hard work, hard play and heartache. — Inez Kelley

It's like our whole culture is based on frivolity, and I never noticed before." -Cara — Melissa Landers

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next. — Glen Duncan

Love could not save her from the bargains others had made. — Thomm Quackenbush

And our dreams,
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair. — Denise Levertov

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. — Joseph Joubert

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The was something very satisfying about a smile that had to be earned. — Kasie West

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something. — James Laver

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. — Matthew Arnold

It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous. — G.K. Chesterton

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results. — Ilka Chase

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. — Bill Griffith

Sometimes frivolity isn't a bad thing. — Richelle Mead

The only time I sat up from lying down was to get out of bed.
Or get some chocolate.
Or a book. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Being a Viking's guarian angel is hard work... — Sandra Hill

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. — Edith Wharton