O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.
We must not stand upon trifles.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.
I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
Cracks make caves collapse.
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.
Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done; I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you
Pay attention even to life's trifles.
