Petty Quotes

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

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

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

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

The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

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.

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.

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

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

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

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

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

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

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

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