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
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams 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
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to? — Robert Breault 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
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
Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously. — Nicolas Bentley 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
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
Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Trifles cannot satisfy our longings. Sensual pleasures, power over our fellow man, the acquisition of things, these are babbles, toys, trifles. Our… — Vaughn Heppner Copy Share Image
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted… — Mary Renault 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
God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other… — Martin Luther 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
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it… — Bill Bryson 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
“Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from trifles springs– Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from… — Emily Eden 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
“The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it… — Swami Vivekananda 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
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles. — George Santayana 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
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
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