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Trifling Quotes

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, Harvard University Press

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

John Tillotson (1720). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith”, p.37

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

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

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

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.196, Broadview Press

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.726, Delphi Classics

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

"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.