Zitat des Tages über Kleinigkeit / Trifling:
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
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.
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
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?
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
