A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere . — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price. — Plutarch 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
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
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
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
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.” — Jane Austen 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
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
For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
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
“I find by my own experience, a few implements, a knife, an axe, a spade, a wheelbarrow, etc., and for the studious,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to… — Odell Shepard 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
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
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
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
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
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain 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
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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