| 单词 | little things please little minds |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslittle things please little minds c. little things please little minds (and variants): used to suggest that people who find pleasure in trivial or childish things are unintelligent or foolish. [Compare classical Latin parva leves capiunt animos ‘small things enthral light minds’ (Ovid Ars Amatoria 1. 159), and also Hellenistic Greek αἰεὶ τοῖς μικκοῖς μικκὰ διδοῦσι θεοί ‘the gods always give small things to the small’ (Callimachus Fragments 47).] ΚΠ 1584 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao ii. iv. sig. C4v Litle things catch light mindes.] 1832 W. Martin Let. 25 Jan. in Defeat of Learned Humbugs 29 Some silly creatures stamped and rapped as if you had done something very clever, but ‘little things pleases little minds’. 1879 V. Durrant Saul Weir I. xxxv. 371 Little things please little minds; and these gloves set the girls tittering. 1910 S. S. Smith Dean Smith v. 162 The mind which is strung to the highest issues is always capable of the greatest relaxation, therefore it is not true to say that little things please little minds. 1989 S. Eldred-Grigg Siren Celia ii. 41 It appears a trifling matter to build happiness upon, but as you know, little things amuse little minds. 2011 Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 22 May (Accent section) d6/1 When I showed enthusiasm for something that we were doing, she stated ‘Little things please little minds’. < as lemmas |
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