Trifle Quotes

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

Success, Forward, Matter

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
Blaise Pascal

Distresses, Consoles

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

Impossible, Playing, Fall

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo

Perfection, Trifles

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Perfection, Quite

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
Homer

Others, Precious, Charity

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
Dwight L. Moody

Jesus, Nor, Dare

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Nature, Since, Limits

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Great, Freedom, Down

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.
James Wolcott

Rock, Hair, Phony

One must not trifle with love.
Alfred de Musset

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
Karl Pilkington

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Great, Freedom, Strong

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.
John Bright

War, American, Fact

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
George A. Smith

Power, Truth, Often

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
Louis Agassiz

Nature, Mind, Study

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
Thomas Day

Nature, Heart, Human

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