Trifling Quotes

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

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

The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.

To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

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

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.