Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old petty quotes, petty sayings, and petty proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying.Timothy Spall
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Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.Abdul Sattar Edhi
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Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.Sebastian Faulks
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.Jean De La Bruyere
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The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.Sun Tzu
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Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.Samuel Johnson
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The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.Criss Jami
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The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.Rex Stout
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Our thoughts are broadcasts of the soul, not secrets of the brain. Kind ones bring us happiness; petty ones, untold pain.Ritu Ghatourey
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world. Like a Colossus; and we petty men. Walk under his huge legs, and peep about. To find ourselves dishonourable graves.William Shakespeare
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Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.Rebecca Lobo
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The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.Francis Bacon
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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.Jeff Goldblum
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It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.Bryant H. McGill
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Petty mindedness instructs eyes to see everything from an appropriate standpoint, beautifulness could be looked otherwise.Toba Beta
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Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.Susan Cheever
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Petty laws breed great crimes.Ouida
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It's smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.Jan Morris
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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
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.Theophrastus
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More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.Marty Rubin
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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.George Carlin
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An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.Christian Nestell Bovee
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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.Sheri S. Tepper
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.Imelda Marcos
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Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.Maude Adams
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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