#trifles

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

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

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#exert #fields #itself #life #likely

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

— Doris Lessing

#great people #important #important matters #mark #matters

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#curiosity #diverted #emulation #great #knowledge

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#shows #treatment #trifles

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#character #guard #his #man #off

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#fill #full #furniture #how #more