A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of… — Martin Luther 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
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows… — Socrates 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
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
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
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere . — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to… — Horace Walpole 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
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