Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle. — Nas Copy Share Image
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting… — James Wolcott 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
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren 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
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Helen opened her eyes and gazed into the luminous blue of the sky. Was it crazy, she wondered, to be as grateful… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“These were virtuoso odours, executed as wonderful little trifles that of course no one but he could admire or would ever take… — Patrick Süskind 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
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
