A Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

John Lancaster Spalding

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John Lancaster Spalding
American - Author
June 2, 1840 - August 25, 1916

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

Caravaggio

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

Jessica Mitford

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Oliver Goldsmith

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Gaston Leroux

For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.

Ishmael Beah

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Aristotle

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

Edmond Jabes

There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.

Yoshida Kenko

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Doris Lessing

I have nine children. Four of my children are adopted. We talk about those who have nothing. My children started with nothing, some of them.

Matt Bevin

Nothing can distract me.

Bianca Andreescu

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

Antonio Porchia

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Samuel Johnson

You have to know how to co-operate with other people if you want to stay alive and raise children. And to do that, you need to know something about them. You need to know who loves whom, who hates whom, who is sleeping with whom. Who is honest, who is a cheat.

Yuval Noah Harari

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