“Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin”
Henry Cabot Lodge
“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
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Michelangelo
“One Must not Trifle with Love.”
Alfred De Musset
“Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.”
Franklin Pierce