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Petty mind mocks.
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.
It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast.
Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
Act innocently.
Act intelligently.
Act instinctively.
Act impressively.
I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
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.
plaintively. Ford
Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
See the ridiculous in everything.
The excess of all good things is mischievous.
Passionately desired, graciously received.
Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, That were to consider it too curiously.
I love deeply and daringly.
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
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.
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.
Dare to exercise rational thinking.
Your amoral ingenuity in the pursuit of your interest is perfectly shocking," said Zacharias severely. "Yes, isn't it?" said Prunella, pleased.
I'd forgotten how exuberant you are
Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me.
She is deranged," I said, "but so so playful.
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.
I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
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.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Smiling too brightly,
Quickly, say something unfeeling. Mock my letters. Threaten my beetles. Just do something, anything reprehensible.
"So, passive-aggressive is how you're going to play this?"
"Well, it's either that or aggressive-aggressive. And I'd prefer not to be arrested for domestic violence today. Maybe tomorrow.
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!
When faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem... your only option is to act swiftly, some might even say irrationally. Removing the most dangerous elements first... and methodically attacking each subsequent challenge in a separate, but deliberate manner.
You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
Youthful exuberance is splendid.
I am choking in the suffocating foul air of the harbor. I want to hoist my sails in the open sea, even though a tempest may be blowing. Furled sails are always dirty. Those who would deride me are so many furled sails. They can do nothing.
Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst busying ourselves with intellect and seriousness. And misery.
How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it!
To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
The enemy was close. Despite my fear, I was somehow having fun. Being chased and killed by villains was a thrilling vision. My paranoia really excited me.
It stimulated me. In short, it was pleasant.
If it was pleasant, it also must be fun.
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
A question asked in earnest deserves an earnest answer.
This is passive-aggression in action.
Act sensibly.
Act sincerely.
Act selflessly.
Act splendidly.
smouldering away in a fit of impotent rage
Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
Absurdity of absurdities.
It has been brought to my attention that I may be a verbivore. I consumptor of words, that I subsequently spew forth with considerable consternation.
A Volley of verbs that are quite vexing has taken form, perhaps under the guise of consonants most foul!! Where have you wandered faithful vowels?
The more you try to defend,
you admit that you are aggressive.
P. Hermans
September 28, 2016
Amen
In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.
If you must flie, flie well.
Like a predator about to devour the target.
She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?"
"Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused.
"What do you want to call it?"
He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.
Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?"
"Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?"
"You're not going to go mad," she said firmly.
"Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.
suppressed hysteria.
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?
On the sly, scoping for love.
Words cannot express how pissed off I am. I am going to have to invent a new word to explain how angry I am. Karflagled. I am so karflagled off at you right now!" "See,
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
I live life with a daring curiosity.
Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
Most thoughtful,"...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignore ...[the] coup entirely--an established tactic, most irritating to the innovator but hard to sustain over long periods of time--or had she already evolved her counter-strategy?
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
I am malicious because I am miserable
Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.
Who loved without any genuine feeling, with superfluous phrases, affectedly, hysterically, with an expression that suggested that it was not love nor passion, but something more significant; ...
caughtoutedness.
abysmally beshitted.
Hell-bent on extinguishing
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.
Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.
Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
Mischief Managed.
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
I like to make them squirm.
Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time.
In response to the extraordinary
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
How could you ... ? How?"
"Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your lead."
... He is really going through with it.
"No," She managed.
"There is no other way.
genuine excitement
We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out
when, in fact, no one has an outcome to be imposed on the relationship, apart from the decision to continue it.
Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so ... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
Tendentious point of view;