I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that… — George Crabbe 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
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
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
“It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events.” — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more… — Esther Meynell 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
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
“(E)very genuine act or word, no matter how trifling it seems, leaves a sweet and strengthening influence behind” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl… — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image
Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
“in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the… — Washington Irving 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
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
