Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova.… — Deborra-Lee Furness Copy Share Image
Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't… — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little… — E. B. White 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
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said… — William De Morgan Copy Share Image
Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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