Trifling Quotes

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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the… — Aristotle
The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were… — Rabindranath Tagore
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the… — Mark Twain
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period… — Mark Twain
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would… — Henry David Thoreau
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render… — Washington Irving
If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork… — S. J. Perelman
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling… — Diogenes
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears… — Martial
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith
To give importance to trifling matters. — John Heywood
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. — George Crabbe
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or… — Joshua Reynolds
Some of you may ask, ?Is there a single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments that God has enjoined upon… — Brigham Young
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of… — William Osler
Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys… — Jean de la Bruyere
Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the… — Jean de la Bruyere
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. — William Cowper

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