These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able… — William Shenstone 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
All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor… — H. L. Mencken 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
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. — Aristotle 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
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
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal,… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is… — Brigham Young 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
The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. — Yann Martel 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
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
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
