Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle. — Nas Copy Share Image
Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles. — Emily Bronte 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
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
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life,… — Richard Burton 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
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
Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation… — Annie Smith Peck 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
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 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
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
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
“These were virtuoso odours, executed as wonderful little trifles that of course no one but he could admire or would ever take… — Patrick Süskind 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
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people… — Stella Blum 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 love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is… — Claudio Abbado Copy Share Image
When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and… — Thomas Hooker Copy Share Image
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![“Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to…” quote by Johann Heinrich Lambert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/877/johann-heinrich-lambert-52135_analysis_proofs-of-the-euclidean-parallel-postula_2760071.jpg)
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