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Trifles Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
More Trifles Quotes
- A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer
- What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the… — 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,… — Richard Burton
- The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are… — Louis Agassiz
- 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… — Loren Eiseley
- The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson