A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
John Strachan
Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.
Edward Hicks
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
James Wyatt
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
Franklin Pierce
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Potter Webb
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
William Cowper
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Andrew Holmes
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry Miller
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Sarah Josepha Hale
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
Ernest Thompson Seton
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
Follow BrainyQuote on Facebook
Follow BrainyQuote on Twitter