Quotes About Playthings

Living toys are something novel, But it soon wears off somehow.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw:Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,A little louder, but as empty quite:Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,And beads and prayer books are the toys of age!Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before;Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things should be thus. We are the playthings of the forces that laid out the oceans and chiselled the mountains.

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Concepts of mercy and tolerance were rich people's luxuries, playthings for idle minds.

Somos para los dioses como moscas en manos de chiquillos caprichosos; nos matan como en un juego.

The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deadly sick.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Our Selves are like some little children who will be happy enough so long as they are left to their own games, but when we begin to interfere with them, and make them presents of too nice playthings, or too many sweet things, they begin at once to fret and spoil.

God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that, he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!

would make 'a fatal bargain' if they allowed 'the moral force which this country has so long exerted to become diminished, or perhaps even destroyed, for the sake of the costly, trumpery, dangerous military playthings

The Olympians enjoy the mauling and brawling of their playthings, their little human pets

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see. To be the playthings of tyrants.

A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers 'Chucky.'

I'm always going to the toy store; I even have a room full of plastic models.

It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.

If we are the toys of the gods are not perhaps the gods themselves mere children?

I was fascinated by puppets as a kid and one I had when I was eight or nine, a skeleton, is now hanging in my office.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.