"Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the umbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid."

"Of doues I haue a dainty paire Which, when you please to take the aier, About your head shall gently houer, Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer, And with their nimble wings shall fan you That neither cold nor heate shall tan you, And like umbrellas, with their feathers Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers."

"We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree."

"Accipe quæ nimios vincant umbracula soles; Sit licet et ventus, te tua vela tegent."

"Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat."

"Curæ leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent."

"Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward."

"Die Müh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross."

"Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety."

"I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one."

"You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule Should ever be kept at the front;— Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed."

"Jucunda memoria est præteritorum malorum."

"TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth."

"Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui."

"O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?"

"This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth."

"To take arms against a sea of troubles."

"Our people of Birmingham are a peaceful people and we never have any trouble here unless some people come into our city looking for trouble. And I've never seen anyone yet look for trouble who wasn't able to find it."

"This peck of troubles."

"The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference."

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

"A generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty."

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

"For who hath despised the day of small things?"

"Magno iam conatu magnas nugas."

"A trifle makes a dream, a trifle breaks."

"Peu de chose nous console, parceque peu de chose nous afflige."

"De multis grandis acervus erit."

"For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots."

"It was possible to live under the regulations established by Sir George [Cockburn], but now we are tortured to death by pin-point wounds."

"They made light of it."

"The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke."

"Ex parvis sæpe magnarum momenta rerum pendent."

"Atque utinam his potius nugis tota illa dedisset Tempora sævitiæ."

"A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation."

"For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little."

"Hæ nugæ seria ducent In mala."

"Coups d'épingle."

"Das kleinste Haar wirft seinen Schatten."

"Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven."

"He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little."

"He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little."

"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above. Changed by later compilers to "make this earth an Eden.""

"Little drops of water, little grains of sand Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land."

"Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year."

"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."

"Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, And waste the time, which looks for other revels."

"A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person."