The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. Charles Horton Cooley
He that shuns trifles must shun the world. George Chapman
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a trifle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. Doris Lessing
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. Wallace Stevens
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. Samuel Richardson