“A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.”
Clifton Fadiman
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”
Dante Alighieri
“You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster”
Quentin Crisp
“In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.”
Geoffrey Fisher
““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
“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
“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”
Karl Marx
