I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor. — John Paul Jones 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
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer… — Samuel Johnson 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
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova.… — Deborra-Lee Furness Copy Share Image
We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is… — Lewis M. Branscomb 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
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are… — Louis Agassiz 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
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said… — William De Morgan Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. — Victor Hugo 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
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock 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
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