(36 quotes found)
“Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.”
Thomas Adams
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Michelangelo
“Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.”
Dwight L. Moody
“Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.”
“The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.”
Louis Agassiz
“Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.”
William Somerset Maugham
“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
“It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution”
George Eliot
“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues”
Aristotle
