Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

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

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

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

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.

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

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.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.

Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the kids are at school, I lie in bed, close the curtains, watch television and eat food.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.

If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.

I hit big or I miss big.

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me working, or being a part of the industry.

I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned not bought.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

We should give as we would receive cheerfully quickly and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

I eat a salad every single day. I also have been doing the juice 'thing' after every workout, and I try to drink a half-gallon of water a day.

Coffee the favorite drink of the civilized world.

'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

The bigger you build the bonfire the more darkness is revealed.