Rifling Quotes

Women must particularly be guarded against evil inclinations, however trifling ,they may appear , for, if they are not guarded, they will bring sorrow on two families. - Guru Nanak

We have a trifling foolish banquet towards. - William Shakespeare

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. - Ernest Thompson Seton

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind. - Sarah Josepha Hale

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. - Mark Twain

There comes not to them a new reminder from their Lord but they hear it while they sport, / Their hearts trifling; and those who are unjust counsel together in secret: He is nothing but a mortal like yourselves; what! will you then yield to enchantment while you see? / He said: My Lord knows what is spoken in the heaven and the earth, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing. - Quran

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. - Samuel Johnson

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; - that laws were like cobwebs, -for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. - Diogenes