To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The pettiest and slightest nuisances are the most acute; and as small letters hurt and tire the eyes most, so do trifling… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“and therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of… — Mark Goodwin Copy Share Image
Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with… — James Howell Copy Share Image
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives. — Plato Copy Share Image
The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere. — Magha Copy Share Image
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
