Trifles Quotes

Trifles Quote of the day

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it.

I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Trifles make the sum of life.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

One must not trifle with love

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

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 of him at leisure for your trifles?

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.