Undue Burden

Famous quotes containing the words undue and/or burden:

    Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)