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
The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing. — Susan Glaspell 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
To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow — William Jenkyn 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
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is… — Isaac Watts 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
Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you.… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest,… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance. — Babe Paley Copy Share Image
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
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