“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
“You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster”
Quentin Crisp
“What's the meaning of making a fuss of these trivialities, which are mostly unintended? It may also violate our human rights.”
Wang Wei
“To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.”
Thomas Carlyle
““A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.””
Carlos Castaneda
“I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.”
Henry R. Luce
“If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.”
William Bennett
