Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on… — Hugo Grotius Copy Share Image
Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events… — Arthur Helps 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
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark… — Patricia Moyes 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
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
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
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner.… — Martial 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
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
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
I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
