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The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods. — Rachel Hartman

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan
How vain is that poor creature man;
How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf
To grate about that thing himself. — Charles Churchill

I did not steal your paltry goods! — Mark Twain

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. — Sam Waterston

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain. — Glen Duncan

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. — David Gilmour

Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next. — Rebecca Rasmussen

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

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore De Balzac

The median savings of households 10 years from retirement is a paltry $12,000; nearly one-third of those 55-64 have no savings. — Anonymous

It grieved him to think of that paltry, guarded, nut-like thing that was his artistic reputation. — Carol Shields

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Use your God given time wisely, don't waste it in paltry things. — Euginia Herlihy

Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you. — Peter Kreeft

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites! — Osamu Dazai

Reality seemed so paltry next to castles - dungeons - in the air. — Pico Iyer

I said: 'Thou thing of patches, rings,
Pins, necklaces and suchlike things,
Disguiser of the female form,
Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm! — William Blake

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. — John Updike

Today, I sold my heart. The price was paltry. It cost me everything. — Eden Butler

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes. — Honore De Balzac

Now, when any vicious simpleton excites my disgust by his paltry ribaldry ... — Charlotte Bronte

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. — D.H. Lawrence

I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a paltry manner (Charles Darwin) — Abram Kardiner

If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity to be damned for something paltry. — Gary Jennings

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute. — Rick Moody

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author. — George Sand

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-. — Emily Dickinson

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life. — Edward R. Murrow