Trifles Quotes

197 quotes by 153 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
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together. — Vera Nazarian
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in… — Zhuangzi
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. — Hannah More
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form. — William Walker Atkinson
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. — Benjamin Franklin
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats… — Aristotle
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana
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
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and… — Benjamin Disraeli
I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly… — William Allingham
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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