Trifles Quotes

197 quotes by 153 authors

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think… — Marcus Aurelius
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do… — Joseph Addison
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the… — Richard Burton
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable… — Samuel Butler
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but… — Lord Chesterfield
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of… — Louis Agassiz
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance. — Babe Paley
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have… — George Bernard Shaw
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. — Alexander Pope
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.… — Loren Eiseley
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. — William Hazlitt
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of… — Louis Kronenberger
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. — Aristotle
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles. — Samuel Johnson
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our… — John Owen

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