1.
We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
Susan Glaspell
2.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Alexander Pope
4.
I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.
John Paul Jones
5.
Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
Joseph Conrad
6.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
Blaise Pascal
7.
Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle
Michelangelo
8.
It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9.
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
Arthur Conan Doyle
11.
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14.
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Nicolas Chamfort
15.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
Leigh Hunt
16.
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Thomas Sprat
18.
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Wallace Stevens
20.
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
Jerome K. Jerome
21.
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
Wendell Phillips
23.
I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
William Allingham
24.
Out of many things a great heap will be formed.
[Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]
Ovid
27.
These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
[Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent
In mala.]
Horace
28.
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Benjamin Franklin
30.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
George A. Smith
33.
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
Plautus
34.
Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.
Charles Spurgeon
35.
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
Philip Sidney
37.
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
38.
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
Alexander Pope
39.
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
George Eliot
40.
Small minds are captivated by trifles.
Ovid
41.
Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ
Charles Spurgeon
42.
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
44.
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.
Emma Goldman
46.
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
47.
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
Martial
49.
We make trifles of terrors,
Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
William Shakespeare
50.
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
Horace