Negligible Quotes

Some things really don't matter.

And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.

Nothing really matters except a few things that really don't matter very much.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

I don't care about hundreds, fifties, averages.

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.

Do not repeat calumny, neither hear it. It is the way of expression of the hot-bellied Report a thing observed, not heard. If it is negligible, do not say anything

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

The margin is very marginal.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.