Synonyms for trifles
tri·fles

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1. List of paraphrases for "trifles":

   trinkets, trivia, trivialities, platitudes

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1. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   When we trace to their source the most important circumstances of our life, in what trifles have they originated ! — a look, a word, are the ministers of fate.

2. Doris Lessing:

   It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

3. Blaise Pascal:

   The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

4. James Henry Leigh Hunt:

   Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

5. 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.