Trifles Quotes

197 quotes by 150 authors

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
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. — Robert A. Heinlein
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the… — Van Wyck Brooks
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
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or… — Edwin Percy Whipple
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. — Plautus
We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it… — G I Gurdjieff
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues. — Aristotle
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice… — George Santayana
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part… — Leonardo da Vinci
As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into… — Henry Fielding
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
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,… — Hannah More
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. — Arthur Balfour
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick… — James F. Cooper
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
Men are led by trifles. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will… — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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