Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old trifles quotes, trifles sayings, and trifles proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.Nicolas Chamfort
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.Christian Nestell Bovee
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.Alexander Pope
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Sometimes, the inessential is essential.T.L. Rese
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To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.Charles Spurgeon
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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.Henry Adams
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Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Trifles themselves are elegant in him.Pope
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A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.Blaise Pascal
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There is nothing unimportant in the universe.Ruth Bernhard
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There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; — it shall go ringing on through the ages.William Morley Punshon
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Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.Dale Carnegie
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A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.Margi Preus
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Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.William Shenstone
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Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.Philip Sidney
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.Victor Hugo
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.Wallace Stevens
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Trifles render us miserable, but trifles also console us.Romainville
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.Sophocles
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.Arthur Conan Doyle
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.Isaac Watts
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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.Oscar Wilde
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Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.William Shakespeare
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Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. Ignore the inconsequential!Grenville Kleiser
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.Hannah More
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.Blaise Pascal
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Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves.Paulo Coelho
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.Alexander Smith
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Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.Martin Farquhar Tupper