“I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.”
J. V. Cunningham
“You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster”
Quentin Crisp
“Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.”
Max Weber
“Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.”
Bible
“Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.”
Charles Caleb Colton
““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
“Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.”
Edmund Burke
