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Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.
— Mason Cooley
Men are led by trifles.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
— Leigh Hunt
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles.
— Justin Cronin
Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.
— Pedro Calderon De La Barca
My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
— William Shakespeare
We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair.
— Martin Luther
The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
— John Godfrey Saxe
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
— George Chapman
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
— Samuel Richardson
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
— Charles Spurgeon
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
— William Shenstone
In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.
— Wilkie Collins
PROFESSOR RUBEK. Well, they are trifles, perhaps; but at any rate the time passes for us in that way as well as another, Maia.
— Henrik Ibsen
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
— Douglas MacArthur
Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
— Arthur Balfour
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a noteOf upstart greatness to observe and watch
For these poor trifles, which the noble mind
Neglects and scorns. — Ben Jonson
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
— Wallace Stevens
Gallimaufry of ices and trifles and toasts, supervised
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
— Benjamin Franklin
He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
— Ann Radcliffe
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
— Thomas Sprat
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves
— Victoria Magazine
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
— Doris Lessing
Character demonstrates itself in trifles.
— Louise Imogen Guiney
To be irritated by trifles, a man must be well off; for in misfortunes trifles are unfelt. SECTION
— Arthur Schopenhauer
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Trifles show character
— Louisa May Alcott
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.
— Emily Bronte
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
— John Lancaster Spalding
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
— George Eliot
Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.
— Alexander Smith
He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
— Babe Paley
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
— Wendell Phillips
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Man shows his character best in trifles.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
— Nicolas Bentley
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
— Alexander Smith
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] — Horace
What trifles colour life and make it dark as night.
— Rose O'Neal Greenhow
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
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pay attention even to life's trifles.
— Miyamoto Musashi
I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.
— John Paul Jones
Men are lead by trifles.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot. - John Shade
— Vladimir Nabokov
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
Trifles make the sum of life.
— Charles Dickens
We make trifles of terrors,Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. — William Shakespeare
Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world ... Focus on your main duty
— Epictetus
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
— George Santayana
Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.
— Quintus Curtius
But fate it a cunning hussy, and builds up her plans as imperceptibly as a bird builds her nest; and with the same kind of unconsidered trifles.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
— Hannah More
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
— William Shakespeare
Sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with triflesfor then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
— Edward Young
Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything ... .
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
— Samuel Johnson
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
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
— Philip Sidney
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
— Dale Carnegie
Trifles, trifles are what matter!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
— William Shakespeare
Cracks make caves collapse.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn