“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.”
Louis Agassiz
“It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles”
Aristotle
“To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.”
Alan Watts
“[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
Daniel Webster
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Michelangelo
