The moon came white and ghostly as we laid the treasure down, There was gear there'd make a beggarman as rich as Lima Town, Copper charms and silver trinkets from the chests of Spanish crews, Gold doubloons and double moidores, louis d'ors and portagues. John Masefield
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd. Zoltan Istvan
Beyond the grave! As the vision rises how this side dwindles into nothing - a speck - a moment - and its glory and pomp shrink into the trinkets and baubles that amuse an infant for a day. Only those things, in the glory of this light, which lay hold of immortality, seem to have any value. Randolph Sinks Foster
Christ may have lost his faith for a few seconds; He did not sell it in the marketplace for the trinkets of ego and curiosity. Dan Simmons
I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway? Evgeny Morozov
Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures. Jim Rohn