Paltry Quotes

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. Walter Scott
Life Risks Worth Honor Men Glorious Action Waters Those Marsh Sluggish Steal Crowded Through Observation Noble Hour Like Without Years Existence Either Which Mean Decorum Full Whole Filled Paltry Chance
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. Demosthenes
You Man Whatever Must Spirit Proud His Conduct Cannot Mean Your Actions Paltry
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe
Love Friendship Man Heart Something Directly Brute Unselfish Had Mere Occasion Him Frequent Test Goes Which Fidelity Who Paltry
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. William Butler Yeats
Man Soul Every Unless Clap Dress Mortal Sing Stick Louder Hands Aged Coat Thing Paltry
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. D. H. Lawrence
Happiness Life You Business Matter Rest Long Miserable Feel Unhappiness Paltry
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. P. J. O'Rourke
Politics God Rights Mercy Resort Way Like Wrongs Foreigners Lousy Get Infinite Endless Done Things Last Paltry
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. Honore de Balzac
Death Feeling Silences Well Separates Unites Paltry
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level. Bob Beauprez
Job Healthy Creation President President Obama Job Creation Jobs Obama Tried Spin Direction Small Step Clearly New Returning New Job Up Much Workforce Less Even Population Population Growth Keeping Growth Right Level Paltry Right Direction Numbers
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. Joseph Howe
Me Library World Poverty Before Few Books Furnish Something Purse Open Volume Exclude Most Sure Very Improve Cannot Which Meanest Then Paltry Amuse
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