Trivial Quotes


You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. - Quentin Crisp


You really find out what's important in life. The things that I was worried about when I was living in New Orleans and everything was OK are really trivial compared to what really matters. - Jonathan Ruffin


Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living. - Germaine Greer


With revenue growth slowing, Ballmer has tried to squeeze more down to the bottom line to make the company more appealing to investors... Even the cuts that seem trivial have dampened morale. Just whisper the word 'towels' to any Microsoft employee, and eyes roll. Last year, Microsoft stopped providing a towel service for workers who used company locker rooms after bike rides or workouts. Employees who helped the company build its huge cash stockpile were furious. And don't even mention stock options. Employees long counted on them to bolster their salaries. Microsoft minted thousands of employee millionaires as the stock climbed 61,000% from its 1986 public offering to its peak in 2001. Now shares are trading exactly were they were seven years ago. Microsoft has doubled its payroll in that time, adding more than 30,000 new employees, not including attrition. That means more than half of Microsoft's employees have received virtually no benefit from their stock holdings. - Jay Greene


Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? - Jamie Zawinski


Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. - Andrea Dworkin


When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. - Eugene O'Neill


When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. - Ethel Merman


When race is featured on shows like this, one of the agendas is to create racial tension. If the world moves too easily, it's not good TV. What this show seems to be doing is taking an important subject and trivializing it. - Nelson George


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