Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it… — John Owen 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
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
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to? — Robert Breault 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
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare 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
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
