There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
“Before all else I learned that these playthings were not mere idle trifles invented by manufacturers and dealers for the purposes of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance. — Babe Paley Copy Share Image
“Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything… .” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image