Trifle quotes

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◆ What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

- Joseph Addison100

◆ A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

- Queen Victoria99

◆ The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

- Homer99

◆ How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

- Wallace Stevens99

◆ A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

- Thomas Sprat99

◆ It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

- Henry Cabot Lodge99

◆ A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

- Michelangelo99

◆ It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

- Doris Lessing99

◆ Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

- Edward Everett Hale99

◆ He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

- George Chapman99

◆ Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

- Leigh Hunt99