#trifle

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles. ↗

— Richard Burton

#dream #events #hazy #how #important

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#events #great #irritate #make #me

He that shuns trifles must shun the world. ↗

— George Chapman

#shun #shuns #trifles #world

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

#going #had #hair #hudson #insincere

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

— Homer

#others #precious #trifle #us

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#flowers #good #humanity #inconceivable #life

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

— Louis Agassiz

#intercourse #mind #nature #never #should

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#fantastic #imaginary #joys #painted #pursues

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. ↗

— Thomas Sprat

#great #life #married #married life #negligence

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

#compromise #fall #get #herself #impossible