There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you.… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest,… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
“This is my prayer to thee, my lord - strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“What was the meaning of this cheap agitation over trifles which I had noticed in myself of late, which hindered me from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow — William Jenkyn Copy Share Image
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
