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)