Quotes
Quotes about Trifles
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence.
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys,
And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
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.
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.
Women know The way to rear up children (to be just); They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles.
The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge, And thus some seeming pettiest chance Oft gives our life its after-tinge. The trifles of our daily lives, The common things, scarce worth recall, Whereof no visible trace survives, These are the mainsprings after all.
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.]
Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.
