Top 25 Trifles Quotes of 54 - Page 2

Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

Ovid

Trifles

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hair, Shadow, Trifles

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Jerome K. Jerome

Poor, Trifles, Mere

Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.32, Jerome K. Jerome

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

Horace

Serious, Trifles, Mischief

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

George A. Smith

Power, Men, Trifles

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What Matters, Matter, Trifles

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.16, e-artnow

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Benjamin Franklin

Common, Disturbed, Trifles

Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.76

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Character, Men, Trifles

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Philip Sidney

Victory, Trifling, Trifles

Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1829). “The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes”

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Ovid

Mind, Trifles, Small Minds

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin, Trifles, Has Beens

Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.684, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Cracks make caves collapse.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Caves, Cracks, Trifles

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

World, Conspiracy, Trifles

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.42

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

William Shakespeare

Trifles, Alas

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

William Shakespeare

Should, Terror, Trifles

1604-5 Lafeu. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 2, sc.3, l.1-6.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Ouida

Wit, Trifles, Bores

Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

We must not stand upon trifles.

Miguel de Cervantes

Trifles

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1858). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.155

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Mason Cooley

Guilt, Trifles, Habitual

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

Martial

Waste, Trifles, Folly

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

Louise Imogen Guiney

Character, Trifles, Small Things

Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

John Lancaster Spalding

Children, Trifles

John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Giving, Trifles

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.