A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Cliff Fadiman

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
C. S. Forester

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
Federico Fellini

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Pierre Charles Baudleaire

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Larry Wall

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

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Irvin S. Cobb

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
William Bennett

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
Richard Armour

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Mary McCarthy

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

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

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
Raymond Chandler

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
Sogyal Rinpoche