Trifle Quotes
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Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.
Galileo Galilei
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
George Bernard Shaw
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Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.
Conn Iggulden
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Who sail on stormy seas;
And that's the way I get my bread --
A trifle, if you please.
Lewis Carroll