“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
“Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles”
Aristotle
“It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“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
“Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.”
Franklin Pierce
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
Homer
