#trivia

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

#any #briefly #inverse #involved #item

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nauseated #personalities #print #sight #trivial

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#events #importance #result #trivial #war

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#kill #killed #reasons #trivial #willingness

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#again #before #folks #i #i think

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... ↗

— Alexander Pope

#love #triviality #love

Trivia monologue. You are so the man for me. ↗

— Molly Harper

#librarian #trivia #useless-information #vampire-romance #librarians

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state. ↗

— Harold Lloyd

#considerable #mental #pain #state #trivial

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#differences #direct #direct proportion #friends #irritating

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#his #hope #i #illness #just