Trifles Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old trifles quotes, trifles sayings, and trifles proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention Gautama Buddha
Little things affect little minds.  Benjamin Disraeli
He that shuns trifles must shun the world. George Chapman
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo
Trifles make the sum of life. Charles Dickens
Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace. Judith Martin
These trifles will lead to serious mischief. Horace
There are other unimportant things about us and our world, which are doubtless the actions of civilised species everywhere. We mate for life - unless we don't. Terence Park
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest. Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor. Seneca The Younger
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. Arthur Schopenhauer
It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run. Charles M. Schwab