Trifle Quotes

110 quotes by 88 authors

In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed… — Jean Genet
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. — Thomas Sprat
The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended… — Charles Darwin
Alas, how love can trifle with itself! — William Shakespeare
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape… — Elwyn Brooks White
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. — Plautus
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes… — Rebecca Harding Davis
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense… — Loren Eiseley
If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may… — Guru Nanak
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed… — Emily Dickinson
Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied… — Hugo Black
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. — Edward Everett Hale
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. — Homer
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. — Doris Lessing
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will… — Henry Cabot Lodge
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. — W. Somerset Maugham
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. — Dwight L. Moody
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. — Blaise Pascal

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