Quotes of Triviality - somelinesforyou

“ Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ”

- Michelangelo

“ 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. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles. ”

- Aristotle

“ What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. - The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. ”

- George Santayana

“ Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. ”

- Thomas Adams

“ The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. ”

- Louis Agassiz

“ It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ Men are lead by trifles. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. ”

- Bible

“ A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. ”

- Bible

“ Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. ”

- Michaelangelo

“ For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots. ”

- Napoleon

“ Little deeds of kindness, little words of love; Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above. ”

- Julia A. Fletcher Carney

“ It is in trifles, and when he is off his guard, that a man best shows his character. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. ”

- Arthur James Balfour

“ God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. ”

- Saint Francis de Sales

“ God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. ”

- St. Francis De Sales

“ I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance. ”

- Babe Paley

“ A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ 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

“ Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space. ”

- Charles Spurgeon

“ A little of what you fancy does you good. ”

- Marie Lloyd

“ A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. ”

- Abigail Adams

“ Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. ”

- Margaret Thatcher
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