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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.
For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
We never pay anyone Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
To give importance to trifling matters.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
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.
A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.
The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.
...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.
There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.
To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.
Alas! the joys that fortune brings
Are trifling, and decay,
And those who prize the trifling things,
More trifling still than they.
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
