Trifles Quotes

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

We must not stand upon trifles.

Men are lead by trifles.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.