It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle.” — Ben Franklin Copy Share Image
“Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything… .” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot." "I don't mean to," I reassured him,… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“They were like self-centred invalids who absorb themselves in trifles, as narcotics to console them for the loss of hope.” — Thomas Mannann Copy Share Image
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
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