Trifles Quotes
197 quotes by 153 authors
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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
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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
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
— Babe Paley
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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
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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
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
— Alexander Pope
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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
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
— William Hazlitt
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
— Henry Adams
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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
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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
— Aristotle
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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
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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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