Petty
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
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Petty Quotations
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emile M. Cioran
I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
Walter Annenberg
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Anton Chekhov
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Zhuangzi
Petty Translations
petty in German is klein
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