Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it…

Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

— Liu Bei

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

— Oliver Goldsmith

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about…

— Mark Twain

The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and…

— Odell Shepard

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

— Magha

“The pettiest and slightest nuisances are the most acute; and as small letters hurt and tire the eyes most, so do trifling matters sting…

— Michel de Montaigne

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

— Aristotle

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity…

— David Brewster

“Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.”

— Henry David Thoreau

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

— Honore de Balzac

All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all…

— H. L. Mencken

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't…

— Umberto Eco

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish…

— William Shenstone

To give importance to trifling matters.

— John Heywood

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…

— Leo Tolstoy