Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything… .” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance. — Babe Paley Copy Share Image
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time… — Han Suyin 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
Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him… — Brother Lawrence 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
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
Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,… — Thomas Hobbes 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
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
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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
To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow — William Jenkyn Copy Share Image
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. — Thomas Sprat 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
“What was the meaning of this cheap agitation over trifles which I had noticed in myself of late, which hindered me from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake… — Benjamin Wiker 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
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted… — Caravaggio Copy Share Image
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — E. B. White 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
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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