Abraham Lincoln

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

American President

Orison Swett Marden

The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

American Writer

Jose Rizal

Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?

Filipino Writer

Joseph Addison

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

English Writer

Richard Burton

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Welsh Actor

John Holmes

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

American Poet

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

German Philosopher

George A. Smith

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

American Clergyman

Alexander Smith

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Scottish Poet

George Chapman

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

English Poet

Used to downplay an issue or object, suggesting it's not a big deal.

Minimizing Expression

Indicates something is so unimportant it's almost not worth talking about.

Not Worth Mentioning

Implies a casual or flippant attitude when one should be serious.

Casual Attitude

Can imply a risk of offending someone by not taking them or something they care about seriously.

Risk of Offense

Refers to a sweet, layered dessert enjoyed at celebrations and on special occasions in the UK.

Culinary Delight

A trifle is often brought to potlucks because it's delicious and can serve many people.

Potluck Favorite

Describes an action of wasting time that could have been better spent.

Waste of Time

Emphasizes the absence of a serious or purposeful intent.

Lacking Seriousness

 it is the world to me I've heard of it before our time the newspapers were trifles for rich people only they never told the plight of the regular people in the world working-class people that people who strive and struggle I come

Being Joseph Pulitzer PIPE...

 one of the fundamental problems of cognitive science with a single witticism. He said, "There's something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment in fact."

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