“Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.”
Camilo Jose Cela
“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
“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
“[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
“Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.”
Franklin Pierce
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Michelangelo
