Famous quotes containing the words petty and/or appeared:
“When petty people get into power they consider themselves unexcelled in the world.”
—Chinese proverb.
“All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My knowledge was divine. I knew by intuition those things which since my Apostasy, I collected again by the highest reason.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)