Trifles

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

"I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

"This is a gimcrack That can get nothing but new fashions on you."

"These little things are great to little man."

"At every trifle scorn to take offence; That always shows great pride or little sense."

"What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things."

"And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak."

"Trifles, light as air."

"Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, And waste the time, which looks for other revels."

"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."

"Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year."

"Little drops of water, little grains of sand Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land."

"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above. Changed by later compilers to "make this earth an Eden.""

"He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little."

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

"Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven."

"Das kleinste Haar wirft seinen Schatten."

"Coups d'épingle."

"Hæ nugæ seria ducent In mala."

"For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little."

"A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation."

"Atque utinam his potius nugis tota illa dedisset Tempora sævitiæ."

"Ex parvis sæpe magnarum momenta rerum pendent."

"The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke."

"They made light of it."

"It was possible to live under the regulations established by Sir George [Cockburn], but now we are tortured to death by pin-point wounds."

"For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots."

"De multis grandis acervus erit."

"Peu de chose nous console, parceque peu de chose nous afflige."

"A trifle makes a dream, a trifle breaks."

"Magno iam conatu magnas nugas."

"For who hath despised the day of small things?"