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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
— Virginia Woolf
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[My husband] can beat most anyone in Trivial Pursuit, but only because the game does not include questions like "Where is your wallet?
— Amy Sutherland
All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.
— Arnold Beichman
But the technology is only trivial retrospectively - not prospectively.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial
— Robert MacArthur
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Building a project should be a single trivial operation.
— Robert C. Martin
Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?
— Scott Anderson
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
— George Jean Nathan
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
— Federico Fellini
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
— Henry Clay
Allow me to fulfill my duties without having to suffer through trivial attempts at conversation and we will get along well enough.
— Elizabeth Carlton
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
— William Carlos Williams
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
— Gaius Iulius Caesar
Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
— L. W Rogers
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
— John Piper
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
— Barton Gellman
No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion ...
— Jane Austen
Trivial, - there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation, - are useful.
— Victor Hugo
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.
— David Jeremiah
For the true artist, there is no trivial thing.
— Marty Rubin
A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design
— Verner Panton
Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.
— Mark McCormack
It is the small trivial things in life that makes a human happy, like opening a pickle jar.
— KanyaACoffman
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.
— Harold Russell
Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.
— Douglas Merrill
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
— Joel Spolsky
In war, important events result from trivial causes.
— Julius Caesar
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
— Henry David Thoreau
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
— Chuck Eddy
Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Trivial things that you did in the past can turn the lives of others insane. It happens all the time.
— Ryohgo Narita
Nothing by chance, nothing is random, nothing is in vain, nothing is trivial
— Miguel El Portugues
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
— Alan Bennett
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
— Lillian Hellman
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
— Charles Bukowski
Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
— Confucius
Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.
— George Saunders
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
— Douglas Adams
When all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
— Galen Beckett
Gravity is not a trivial monster.
— Frank Cottrell Boyce
Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.
— Sun Myung Moon
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
— Oscar Wilde
When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.
— Megan McCafferty
We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
— Mark Twain
We only have one chance in this life, so don't waste it on trivial people and matters.
— Norhafsah Hamid
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
— William James
He found trivial all that was meant to charm him and did not answer the glances which invited him to be bold.
— James Joyce
The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental.
— Andrew Solomon
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
No perspective is ever really trivial.
— Stephenie Meyer
Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
— Henry David Thoreau
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
— Clifton Fadiman
The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders.
— Tess Gerritsen
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons
— Bertrand Russell
Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
— William Shakespeare
There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.
— Johnny Ball
Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life.
— Ernest Becker
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
— Pliny The Elder
The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.
— William Rainey Harper
Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.
— H.L. Mencken
Believe me, nothing is trivial
— Brandon Lee
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
— Larry Wall
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial
— James Joyce
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
— Elsa Maxwell
Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
— Charles Baudelaire
A trivial thing, for a teenage boy to be colour-blind, not uncommon or noteworthy, unless it simply, unalterably, thwarted everything.
— Stephen Gregory
The philistine tranquillises himself with the trivial.
— Soren Kierkegaard
