Men are led by trifles.

Cracks make caves collapse.

One must not trifle with love

Trifles make the sum of life.

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

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