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Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not. -- Mason Cooley
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy. -- Jack Kingston
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty. -- Catherine Deneuve
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. -- Hans Hofmann
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. -- Mary Quant
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. -- Sophie Swetchine
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. -- Jane Austen
I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. -- Taylor Momsen
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. -- Iris Murdoch
Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it. -- Kelly Ayotte
I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. -- Michele Bachmann
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. -- Thomas Sowell
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion. -- Douglas Coupland
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. -- Tom Stoppard
I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work. -- Donatella Versace
I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff. -- Holly Madison
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system. -- Imelda Marcos
I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world. -- Charles Duhigg
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music. -- Ellen G. White
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -- Albert Schweitzer
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. -- Blaise Pascal
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it. -- Mike Krzyzewski
I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things. -- Lee Hall
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. -- David Nicholls
Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. -- Darell Hammond
Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career. -- Antonio Banderas
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. -- Alexandra Fuller
Fashion is not frivolous. -- Donatella Versace
The frivolous work of polished idleness. -- James Mackintosh
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. -- Virginia Woolf
The fight against bad English is not frivolous. -- George Orwell
The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous. -- Norman L. Biggs
I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous. -- Jeanloup Sieff
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious. -- Susan Sontag
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. -- Madame de Stael
Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person. -- Donatella Versace
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous. -- Sebastian Faulks
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules. -- Tadashi Suzuki
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. -- Edith Wharton
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. -- Gore Vidal
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence. -- Mason Cooley
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. -- Angela Carter
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. -- Rick Perry
As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle. -- Freida Pinto
A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing. -- Jerry Saltz
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle. -- Freida Pinto
She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche. -- Romola Garai
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. -- Evelyn Waugh
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas. -- Milan Kundera
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body. -- Laura Joh Rowland
The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died -- Donato DiCristino
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. -- Martial
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous. -- Betty Friedan
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history. -- Robert Genn
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous. -- Henry David Thoreau
In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times. -- Paul Madonna
It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective. -- Quentin Crisp
As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous. -- Akiva Goldsman
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. -- Marguerite Duras
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. -- Dorothy Nevill
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right. -- Colin Firth
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. -- Philip Treacy
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. -- Charlotte Bronte
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement. -- Mary Baker Eddy
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely. -- Mary McCarthy
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union. -- Adam Weishaupt
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip. -- Bill Ayers
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip." -- Bill Ayers
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. -- Bernard Malamud
If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done. -- Marcia Cross
I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it. -- Goldie Hawn
A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial. -- George Gilder
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do. -- Richard Steele
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do -- Richard Steele
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'. -- Mark Twain
It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed. -- Eugene Jarecki
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy. -- Laurie Cabot
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely. -- Helen Simpson
Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress. -- Maajid Nawaz
I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator. -- Andrea Riseborough
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights. -- Saul Griffith
When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right? -- Laura Harring
I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too. -- Anna Sui
I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches. -- Russell Simmons
Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man? -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry. -- Christopher Hitchens
I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty. -- Catherine Deneuve
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers. -- Marcia Wallace
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank. -- Luc de Clapiers
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell: -- Michel de Montaigne
I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it. -- Prabal Gurung
Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us. -- Michel de Montaigne
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings. -- Milton H. Erickson
The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern. -- John F. Kennedy
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana. -- Conrad Burns
The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black. -- Carolina Herrera
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous. -- Eric Hoffer
How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age. -- Margaret Atwood
I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men. -- Joanna Trollope
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one. -- John Ruskin
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. -- Scott McCloud
You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones. -- Louisa May Alcott

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