A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
Jack Adams

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Walter Bagehot

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Graham Greene

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.
John Carmack

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
James Otis

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Zhuangzi

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuang Zi

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
John Mellencamp

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Imelda Marcos

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
Walter Annenberg

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.
Andrew Shue

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
Nick Carter

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
Sammy Hagar

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Robert Jackson