A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
Blaise Pascal
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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
HOMER Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
DWIGHT L. MOODY Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Better own a trifle than want a great deal.
IRISH PROVERB Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken ...
W.G. SEBALD Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will n...
BLAISE PASCAL One Must not Trifle with Love.
ALFRED MUSSET One Must not Trifle with Love.
ALFRED DE MUSSET 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 Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we...
HENRY CABOT LODGE We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an...
BLAISE PASCAL Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.
MICHAELANGELO It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
ED GREENWOOD Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly adminis...
CAMILO CELA Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly adminis...
CAMILO JOSE CELA Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
THOMAS ADAMS Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640).
THOMAS ADAMS At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
ALEXANDER POPE We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
...
EDWARD YOUNG I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
[Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, th...
BLAISE PASCAL Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for ...
JAMES WOLCOTT The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
LOUIS AGASSIZ The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason,...
BLAISE PASCAL Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then sudde...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It never ceases to amaze me how people trifle with time. Yet it is their greatest treasure
SUNDAY ADELAJA The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together...
VERA NAZARIAN Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a litt...
ANON. Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a tr...
SAMUEL BUTLER Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 Our business is to love what G...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such ...
WILKIE COLLINS [I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal j...
DANIEL WEBSTER What Pascal overlo...
WALTER KAUFMANN Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, i...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Experience makes us see an enormous diff...
T. S. ELIOT A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ...
E. B. WHITE Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim a...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason...
US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ...
US CONSTITUTION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...
US CONSTITUTION A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people t...
US CONSTITUTION These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a lit...
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nat...
GEORGE CRABBE Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we...
HENRY CABOT LODGE I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsk...
ANDREA BOCELLI Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative how...
ANKUR BASU ROY The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
LIONEL SHRIVER If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"
"More or less." Brienne answered.
Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. Just a friendly warning: the forces of spiritual darness are nothing to trifle with. Vampires do exi...
C.C. BROWN My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanil...
DEBORRA-LEE FURNESS The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of...
THOMAS DAY O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive ...
JOAQUIN MILLER I realize that that the content is trifle, for what purpose of contribution that are we writting for...
LAURE96 Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our...
BLAISE PASCAL In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with ...
MARCUS AURELIUS The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the...
DAVID A. BEDNAR [Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him.
'Will? Are you asleep?'.....
JOHN FLANAGAN It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgus...
OCTAVE MIRBEAU Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon thems...
JOHN LOCKE Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon thems...
JOHN LOCKE Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon thems...
JOHN LOCKE His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchest...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general inten...
ADONIRAM JUDSON Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marve...
HENRY CABOT LODGE I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of ...
JULES VERNE History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON What you taken for granted, could mean a lot to another.
ZENG HAN JUN Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m...
JANE AUSTEN The only easy day was yesterday.
US NAVY SEALS Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give lab...
US SUPREME COURT When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation o...
CARL SAGAN You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what...
E.B. WHITE Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 When I trouble myse...
GEORGE MACDONALD Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
BARBARA MIKULSKI
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(Translation: It is not certain that everything i...
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[Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source....
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BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
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[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins...
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his guide.
[Fr., Les rivieres son...
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BLAISE PASCAL I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had
time to make it shorter.
[Fr., Je...
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BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL A jester, a bad character.
[Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL