Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.
Quotes about trinkets (6 Quotes)
I believe some of the trinkets and some of the things offered are either embarrassing or they're silly or they really miss the point, ... And the marketplace has to sort that out. I would hope there are enough common-sense donors out there that won't buy that kind of material or encourage it, but to the extent they do, it's the American way.
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.
There are certain jobs in government that shouldnt be political trinkets, ... But FEMA has never been a first responder agency, and they never built themselves up as that.