“How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.”
Wallace Stevens
“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
“Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.”
Thomas Adams
“Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.”
Franklin Pierce
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Michelangelo
