Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Mark Twain
Richard Wright
Golda Meir
Franz Kafka
Edward Gibbon
Juvenal
All authors
Today's birthdays
1737 - Edward Gibbon
1995 - Nick Kyrgios
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft
1955 - Eric Schmidt
1802 - William H. Wharton
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Chef
Athlete
Philosopher
Comedian
Psychologist
Cartoonist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Triviality Quotes
Triviality Quotes
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good
Memory
Not Good Enough
Enough
Our
Recollect
Triviality
Retain
How
Least
Person
Same
Often
Happens
Us
Why
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Quentin Crisp
Relationship
You
Treat
Simple
Triviality
Never
Disaster
Disasters
Were
Achieving
Formula
Successful
Should
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
Differences
Direct
Triviality
Proportion
Between
Opinion
Friends
Taste
Irritating
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Time
Law
Will
Sum
Stated
Spent
Triviality
Inverse
Proportion
Involved
Item
Any
Agenda
Means
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.
Michael Hastings
Democracy
Strange
Experience
Despite
Kind
Silliness
Entire
About
Something
Triviality
Absurdity
Also
Sounds
Campaign
Uplifting
Unfold
Watching
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
Janet Malcolm
Life
Death
Made
Our
Horror
Triviality
Mere
Journals
Contemporaries
Inescapable
Leave
Impressions
Die
Essential
Behind
Buried
Pity
Us
Reason
Letters
Biography
Kernel