#trivial

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

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

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

— W. H. Auden

#differences #direct #direct proportion #friends #irritating

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#become #children #factual #more #much

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

— Julius Caesar

#events #importance #result #trivial #war

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

#his #hope #i #illness #just

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

— Bertrand Russell

#kill #killed #reasons #trivial #willingness

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#revolution #shift #suffering #trivial