Trifles Quotes

197 quotes by 153 authors

Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so… — John Vianney
Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from… — John Muir
Men are lead by trifles. — Napoleon Bonaparte
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed… — Emily Dickinson
Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied… — Hugo Black
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. — Charles Horton Cooley
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. — Homer
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. — Doris Lessing
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will… — Henry Cabot Lodge
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. — W. Somerset Maugham
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. — Dwight L. Moody
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. — Blaise Pascal
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. — Karl Pilkington
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. — Samuel Richardson
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. — Arthur Schopenhauer
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. — Wallace Stevens
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. — Queen Victoria

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