Trifles Quotes

The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

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.

Men are led by trifles.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

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

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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.

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

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

Cracks make caves collapse.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.