It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. — Franklin Pierce 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
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
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
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that… — Diogenes 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
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
For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives. — Plato Copy Share Image
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. — Mark Twain 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
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer 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
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
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
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
Nothing is small or great in God's sight. Whatever He wills becomes great to us, however seemingly trifling; and if once the… — Jean Grou 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
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
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
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
