Trifling Quotes
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Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession...
R. M. Ballantyne
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
Herbert Spencer
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
Ernest Thompson Seton
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
Victor Hugo
