#petty

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

— Theophrastus

#dinner #eager #his #host #invited

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

— Zhuang Zi

#generous #great #impassioned #petty #small

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#egoism #feelings #good #oppose #petty

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”, indecision when right was “caution”, and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#petty #love

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#obeys #paradise #petty #politician #republic

Petty laws breed great crimes. ↗

— Ouida

#crimes #great #laws #petty

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

— Jan Morris

#on the contrary #petty #profound #smallness

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul. ↗

— James Otis

#desolation #different #different emotions #emotions #every

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#airs #also #because #beloved #car

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ↗

— Jack Adams

#class #first #first class #got #me