Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle. — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life,… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared;… — Roger L'Estrange 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
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard,… — Rachel Copy Share Image
We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image