Top 100 Quotes About Trifles
#3. Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
Samuel Johnson
#5. Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith
#6. Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
Aristotle.
#7. We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
John Owen
#8. Wars about trifles are always bitter, especially among neighbours. When the differences are great, and the parties comparative strangers, men quarrel with courtesy. What combatants are ever so eager as two brothers?
Anthony Trollope
#9. Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.
Samuel Johnson
#10. We make trifles of terrors,
Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
William Shakespeare
#11. Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.
Mason Cooley
#12. A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Thomas Sprat
#13. Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#14. 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.
Lev Shestov
#15. Call me Autolycus. Well, no, don't. Although I am, like that unfunny clown, a picker-up of unconsidered trifles. Which is a fancy way of saying I steal things
John Banville
#16. A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles
for then he is off his guard.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#18. Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient ... Ignore the inconsequential.
Grenville Kleiser
#19. How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Wallace Stevens
#20. These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
[Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent
In mala.]
Horace
#21. 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.
Lord Chesterfield
#22. as the most stupendous objects in nature are but vast collections of minute particles, so the slightest and least considered trifles make up the sum of human happiness or misery.
Charles Dickens
#23. There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
William Morley Punshon
#24. I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
Babe Paley
#25. Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything ... .
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. 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.
Seneca The Younger
#28. One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.
Erwin Rommel
#29. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Lord Chesterfield
#30. You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#31. Sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#32. Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Mark Akenside
#34. There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
Victor Hugo
#35. It is a note
Of upstart greatness to observe and watch
For these poor trifles, which the noble mind
Neglects and scorns.
Ben Jonson
#36. There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Nicolas Chamfort
#37. A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#38. Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.
Brother Lawrence
#39. The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
Gail Z. Martin
#40. Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.
Grenville Kleiser
#41. To be irritated by trifles, a man must be well off; for in misfortunes trifles are unfelt. SECTION
Arthur Schopenhauer
#42. Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
Carl Maria Von Weber
#43. All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
#44. The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
John Godfrey Saxe
#45. Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Benjamin Franklin
#46. It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
Martial
#47. My trifles escape me with as little gravity as they deserve. Good luck to them for that. I would part with them at once, however low their price. I do not buy and sell them for more than they weigh. I speak to my writing-paper exactly as I do to the first man I meet.
Michel De Montaigne
#49. Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.
Benjamin Wiker
#50. Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.
Emma Goldman
#51. Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
Frank Herbert
#52. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that.
Joe Abercrombie
#53. There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot. - John Shade
Vladimir Nabokov
#54. Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
Horace
#55. The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
Douglas MacArthur
#56. There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.
Thomas Paine
#57. In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness.
Vladimir Nabokov
#58. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles.
Justin Cronin
#61. Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world ... Focus on your main duty
Epictetus
#62. The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
Wendell Phillips
#65. One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism in our fellow souls.
Daleen Van Tonder
#67. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Benjamin Franklin
#68. Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
William Shenstone
#69. When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
Ann Radcliffe
#70. It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#71. The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
Charles Horton Cooley
#72. Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.
Samuel Johnson
#73. Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?
Emily Bronte
#74. Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
Jean De La Bruyere
#75. There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
Elizabeth I
#77. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Hannah More
#78. I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
William Allingham
#79. Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?
Louis Kronenberger
#81. Little bits of things make me do it; - perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; - the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.
Anthony Trollope
#82. Small minds are captivated by trifles.
Ovid
#83. 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?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#84. Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
Edward Young
#85. If there was a common, even official form of killing oneself, suicide would be much easier and much more frequent. But since to be done with it all we must find our own way, we waste so much time meditating on trifles that we forget what is essential.
Emil Cioran
#86. Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
Philip Sidney
#87. Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
Robert A. Heinlein
#88. 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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#91. My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
William Shakespeare
#92. 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.
Honore De Balzac
#93. In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
Henry Adams
#94. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 135 The instruments of darkness tell us truths, 136 Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's 137 In deepest consequence. - 138
William Shakespeare
#95. 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.
Van Wyck Brooks
#96. 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.
Caravaggio
#97. Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say ... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles ... I'm in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee ... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.
John Muir
#98. 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.
Swami Vivekananda
#100. Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle
Michelangelo
