“ Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did. ”
- Lincoln Steffens- Copy
- 2.5K
“ It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Give me a man who says, "This one thing I do," and not, "These fifty things, I dabble in.". ”
- Dwight L. Moody- Copy
- 350
“ It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
- 627
“ Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle. ”
- Michelangelo Buonarroti- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. ”
- Dwight L. Moody- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.6K
“ We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Darwinian man, though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. ”
- W. S. Gilbert- Copy
- 2.2K
“ For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots. ”
- Napoleon- Copy
- 4K
“ It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Little deeds of kindness, little words of love; Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above. ”
- Julia A. Fletcher Carney- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 2.8K
“ There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3K
“ I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ”
- Glenda Jackson- Copy
- 3K
“ I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. ”
- Candice Bergen- Copy
- 2.9K
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