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Quotes of the Day for 4 January 2005 - Trivia

Today is National Trivia Day. Do you have any idea how important that is? Probably not at all, unless you are the publisher of Trivial Pursuit.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
     - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
     - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

The courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
     - Henry Clay, 1777 - 1852

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity, but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
     - Joyce Carol Oates

We shared everything all our lives, the important ones and the trivial ones, and it's the trivial ones that build ties between people.
     - Rae Foley

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.
     - William McChesney Martin, 1906 - 1998

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