These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.] — Horace 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
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. — James Russell Lowell 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
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
He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nothing is small or great in God's sight. Whatever He wills becomes great to us, however seemingly trifling; and if once the… — Jean Grou 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
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
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
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
When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in… — Lydia Sigourney 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
Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
