Trifling Quotes
Trifling Quote of the day
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's heart can be seen.
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
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 to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.
We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
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 know you know.
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 it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.
There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
