Trivial

Famous quotes containing the word trivial:

    Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The elixir of life, the philosopher’s stone
    is yours if you surrender
    sterile logic, trivial reason.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    We have cried in our despair
    That men desert,
    For some trivial affair
    Or noisy, insolent sport,
    Beauty that we have won
    From bitterest hours....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)