Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. — Victor Hugo 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
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission… — Alexander Herzen 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
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness. — Dale Carnegie 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
To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
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
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
“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
It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard,… — Rachel Copy Share Image
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment… — Corinne Maier 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
I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Helen opened her eyes and gazed into the luminous blue of the sky. Was it crazy, she wondered, to be as grateful… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
