Trifling famous quotes

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Imagination #Trifling

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
-- Giovanni Ruffini

#Important #Favors #Trifling

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
-- John Tillotson

#Scoffing #Profanity #Trifling

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft

#Employment #Trifling

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
-- Sarah Josepha Hale

#Mind #Decay #Trifling

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
-- Socrates

#Men #Fancy #Trifling

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
-- Victor Hugo

#Tree #Stories #Trifling