“I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down… — Anna Freeman Copy Share Image
“Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered. — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the… — Liu Bei 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
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence… — Anonymous 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
What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will;… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
Some of you may ask, ?Is there a single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments that God… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to… — Josei Toda 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
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
Let us resolve to talk more to believers about the Bible when we meet them. Alas, the conversation of Christians, when they… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks… — Dick Gregory 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
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“That is what I find so wonderful, that not a day goes by…hardly a day, without some addition to one's knowledge however… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the… — John Herschel 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
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“IN CONVERSATION, TRIFLING OCCURRENCES, such as small disappointments, petty annoyances, and other every-day incidents, should never be mentioned to your friends.” — Isabella Mary Beeton Copy Share Image
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — 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
Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct… — John Newton Copy Share Image
