Trivial Quotes

Some things really don't matter.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.

Your notion and mine about polygamy is without doubt exactly the same; but you probably think we have some cause of quarrel with those people for putting it into their religion, whereas I think the opposite. Considering our complacent cant about this country of ours being the home of liberty of conscience, it seems to me that the attitude of our Congress and people toward the Mormon Church is matter for limitless laughter and derision. The Mormon religion is a religion: the negative vote of all of the rest of the globe could not break down that fact; and so I shall probably always go on thinking that the attitude of our Congress and nation toward it is merely good trivial stuff to make fun of.

We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Occasionally I'll come across something that's just annoying, but for the most part it's irrelevant to me.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

The evidence is clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years. … Steve Jobs finished high school with a 2.65 G.P.A., J.K. Rowling graduated from the University of Exeter with roughly a C average, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. got only one A in his four years at Morehouse.

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

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

… a silly place

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.