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
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
“He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“What was the meaning of this cheap agitation over trifles which I had noticed in myself of late, which hindered me from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
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
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family… — Guru Nanak 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
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 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
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
“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
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
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