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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

[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

Present seemed suddenly strange to me, so trivial and distracted. — Ransom Riggs

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games
they should play go[3] — Confucius

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 ability to observe, and the ability to see the little things that seem trivial at first, may become amazingly important and meaningful. — Harold Gatty

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

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state. — Harold Lloyd

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

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands. — Hugh Nibley

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas. — William James

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

Politics is a trivial diversion from the business of living. — Marty Rubin

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

Trivial losses often prove great gains. — Ovid

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

It seemed trivial. After the battlefield it was going to be difficult to take seriously some of the stuff people worried about in peacetime. — Ken Follett

Word For The Day PICAYUNE (PIK uh yoon') adj. Trivial or petty, small or small-minded. — Deb Baker

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

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. — Aldous Huxley

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. — George Wald

Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God. — Paul Washer

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

I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial. — Lisa Lutz

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

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly. — Paul Henderson

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

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. — Irvin S. Cobb

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

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience. — Olaf Stapledon

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

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. — Ted Cruz

Never do an evil act just because it is trivial; never leave a good act undone just because it's small. — Liu Bei

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

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask. — John Keble

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

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. — Mary McCarthy

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

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary — Maimonides

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

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. — Aldo Leopold

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

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. — Samuel Smiles

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. — Max Beerbohm

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

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively. — Mary MacLane

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 best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial. — Edward Tufte

The philistine tranquillises himself with the trivial. — Soren Kierkegaard

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord. — Richard G. Scott