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
The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block… — Jonathan Swift 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
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
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
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
Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
“In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself,… — Georgette Heyer 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
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
We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance… — G. I. Gurdjieff 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
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
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
