Trifling Quotes: top 63 famous quotes about Trifling

Trifling Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Trifling quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

(E)very genuine act or word, no matter how trifling it seems, leaves a sweet and strengthening influence behind — Louisa May Alcott

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up. — Anna Freeman

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

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. — W. Somerset Maugham

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! — Rudyard Kipling

Those girls are trifling," DeNice said. — Rainbow Rowell

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. — William Makepeace Thackeray

They insist upon the shaving of the moustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters. — Plutarch

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. — Henry Miller

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. — Ernest Thompson Seton

Alas! the joys that fortune brings
Are trifling, and decay,
And those who prize the trifling things,
More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. — Alice Walker

To give importance to trifling matters. — John Heywood

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

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions. — John Tillotson

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

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes. — Anthony Trollope

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep. — Luigi Pirandello

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price. — Plutarch

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

not important, trifling — William Strunk Jr.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

And therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company, — Benjamin Franklin

Against the day of sorrow
Lay by some trifling thing
A smile, a kiss, a flower,
For sweet remembering — Georgia Douglas Johnson

The devotions we practise in honor of the glorious Virgin Mary, however trifling they be, are very pleasing to her divine Son, and He — Various

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere . — Charles Sanders Peirce

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered. — Giovanni Ruffini

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists. — Vladimir Nabokov

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project. — Confucius

The pettiest and slightest nuisances are the most acute; and as small letters hurt and tire the eyes most, so do trifling matters sting us most. — Michel De Montaigne

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? — George S. Clason

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. — Tom Wolfe

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works. — William Osler

Trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler. — Mary Wollstonecraft

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

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. — Mark Twain

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling. — Leo Tolstoy

My pains are but trifling things compared to my joy. — Karen Cushman

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent. — Henry David Thoreau

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. — Franklin Pierce

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. — James Wyatt

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory. — Philip Sidney

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind. — Sarah Josepha Hale

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. — William Cowper

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. — Livy

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. — Aristotle.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The man who is not yet wholly dead to self, is soon tempted, and is overcome in small and trifling matters. — Thomas A Kempis

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display. — Allan Bloom

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent. — Seneca The Younger

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. — Yann Martel

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. — John Herschel

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer

One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly. — Jane Austen

Please stop trifling. — Albert Camus

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. — John Holmes