Trifle Quotes

110 Trifle quotes by 88 unique authors

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming.… — Roger Angell
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together. — Vera Nazarian
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare
The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are… — Jules Verne
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks… — John Kenneth Galbraith
If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin,… — Charles Spurgeon
Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it. — Charles Spurgeon
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. — Thomas Adams
By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. — Elwyn Brooks White
To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it… — Charles Spurgeon
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My… — George Bernard Shaw
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to? — Robert Breault
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a… — Norman Mailer
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

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