To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. — William Cowper 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
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
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
When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished if… — Daisaku Ikeda 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
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
One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and… — Jane Austen 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
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling… — Anthony Trollope 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
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
