To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
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
To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for… — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
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
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
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
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in… — Hannah More 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
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in… — William Shakespeare 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 Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had… — Norman Mailer 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
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
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't… — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
