It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing. — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say… Well may I fast, not from… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image