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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. -- Michelangelo
Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle -- Michelangelo
Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five. -- Samuel Johnson
One must not trifle with love. -- Alfred de Musset
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. -- Blaise Pascal
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. -- Karl Pilkington
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. -- George A. Smith
It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written. -- Ed Greenwood
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. -- Homer
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. -- Dwight L. Moody
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. -- W. Somerset Maugham
My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert. -- Deborra-Lee Furness
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
Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere. -- James Wolcott
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
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. -- Thomas Day
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. -- Marcus Aurelius
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous 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
The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them. -- Orison Swett Marden
Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world. -- Adoniram Judson
I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. -- Jules Verne
Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. -- John Bright
You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time. -- Abraham Lincoln
One must not trifle with love -- Alfred de Musset
Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. -- Plautus
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side. -- Margi Preus
What do you call a rifle with three barrels?A trifle. -- Joseph Rosenbloom
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. -- Thomas Adams
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. -- Alexander Pope
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. -- Sophocles
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it. -- Charles Spurgeon
I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor. -- John Paul Jones
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. -- Alexander Pope
Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ -- Charles Spurgeon
Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle. -- Nas
Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle. -- Frances Hardinge
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. -- Jerome K. Jerome
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. -- Charles Spurgeon
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to? -- Robert Breault
Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please. -- Lewis Carroll
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life. -- Edward Young
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution. -- George Eliot
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. -- William Hazlitt
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. -- Charles Dickens
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? -- James Branch Cabell
To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow -- William Jenkyn
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together. -- Vera Nazarian
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth. -- Lydia Sigourney
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. -- George Crabbe
By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. -- E. B. White
Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you. -- Ankur Basu Roy
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality! -- Emily Dickinson
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs. -- Ouida
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with details. -- Moira J. Moore
Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. -- Joseph Conrad
A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle. -- Andrew Carnegie
To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you. -- Charles Spurgeon
Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power. -- Hugo Black
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. -- E. B. White
I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane -- Wallace Thurman
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle. -- Gail Carriger
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly! -- Georgette Heyer
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation. -- I. F. Stone
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject. -- Samuel Johnson

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