trifled QUOTES

1 " Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. "

― Milan Kundera , The Unbearable Lightness of Being

2 " I didn’t argue. Anybody who that drove a Hummer and carried a Glock, let alone had the audacity to wear white after Labor Day, wasn’t to be trifled with. "

3 " Yeah, but what we need are some fighters who know how to take down a wolf. I know three." " If you are going to get the Pigs, you'll need backup. They're not to be trifled with. "

4 " Words are too awful an instrument for good and evil to be trifled with: they hold above all other external powers a dominion over thoughts. If words be not (recurring to a metaphor before used) an incarnation of the thought but only a clothing for it, then surely will they prove an ill gift; such a one as those poisoned vestments, read of in the stories of superstitious times, which had power to consume and to alienate from his right mind the victim who put them on. Language, if it do not uphold, and feed, and leave in quiet, like the power of gravitation or the air we breathe, is a counter-spirit, unremittingly and noiselessly at work to derange, to subvert, to lay waste, to vitiate, and to dissolve. "

― William Wordsworth

5 " metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love "

― Milan Kundera , The Unbearable Lightness of Being

6 " Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. "

― Milan Kundera , The Unbearable Lightness of Being

7 " But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. "