To trifle with sacred things.
A trifle makes a dream, a trifle breaks. [ Tennyson ]
No blank, no trifle, Nature made or meant. [ Young ]
Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease.
Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. [ Pope ]
At every trifle scorn to take offence;
That always shows great pride or little sense. [ Pope ]
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [ Plautus ]
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life. [ Edward Young ]
Who gives a trifle meanly, is meaner than the trifle. [ Lavater ]
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. [ Michael Angelo ]
Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle. [ Rev. Thomas Adam ]
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. [ Pope ]
What is to me important you regard as a trifle, and what puts me out has with you no significance. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Tom hinted at his dislike at some trifle his mistress had said; she asked him how he would talk to her after marriage if he talked at this rate before. [ Addison ]
Few of us appreciate the number of our everyday blessings; we think they are trifles, and yet trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle,
as Michael Angelo said. [ Sir John Lubbock ]
Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper, look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task. [ G. H. Lewes ]