Frivolous Quotes - Page 7

• Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.

  Laurie Cabot

  Believe, Witch, Trustworthy

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• Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

  Martial

  Strong, Exercise, Men

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• We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Together, Unions, Secrecy

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• I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

  Goldie Hawn

  Happiness, Believe, People

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• Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

  Romola Garai

  Niche, Film, Concern

  "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Romola Garai, Nicci Gerrard, Anna Smith, Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are who I've become, carved by loss and despair. Black, grungy, driven Mac.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Loss, Black, Despair

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1063, Dell

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• ... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.

  Jean Webster

  Running, Fall, Heart

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• For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Reading, Serious, Kind

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• There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

  Marcia Wallace

  Silly, Answers, Waste

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• The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

  Carolina Herrera

  Memories, Simple, Black

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• Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.

  Conrad Burns

  People, Montana, States

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• Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hurt, Pain, Play

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• While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn't sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn't such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Moon, Night, Ideas

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• If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

  Marcia Cross

  Home, Cutting, Done

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• The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Business, Class, Justice

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold

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• The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

  John Ruskin

  Expression, Play, Mind

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.244, John Ruskin

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• An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life And Death, Realization, Flow

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Errors, Vanity

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• The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gay, Tone, Brilliant

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• If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary,... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sports, Party, Blessing

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• I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Father, Important, Scripture

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses”

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• I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.

  Sharon Creech

  Book, Writing, Comfort

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• With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

  Mary McCarthy

  Lonely, Deception, Ephemeral

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

  William Cobbett

  Education, Real, Boys

  William Cobbett (1817). “Cobbett's Weekly Political Register”

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