Top Trivial Quotes

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting...

Trivial Definition

(a.) Found anywhere; common.

(a.) Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.

(a.) Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the trivium.

(n.) One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Stra...

Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archae...

We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

He knew then what it was that Liz had given him; the thing that he would have to go back and find if ever he got home to England; it was the caring about little things - the faith in ordinary life; th...