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Quotes About Playthings

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
~ Mark Akenside
O, lijepe moje slatke lutke! Svi smo mi igra?ke u bazaru civilizacije! Svira?i, dame, no?ni desperateri, paralitici, svi se mi mi?emo u izlogu civilizacije po pravilu. Navinuli su nas, igraju se nama, a onda nas bacaju u sme?e!
~ Miroslav Krleža
With a flourish of his scepter, Mor'ded filled the long great room with sparkling white fire, the flames harmlessly bouncing off the wigs of the men and the silk skirts of the ladies. The courtiers laughed and wove their bodies through the magic, and Dominic watched them with hooded eyes until his father grew tired of amusing his playthings. When
~ Kathryne Kennedy
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
~ Horace Walpole
I'm an avid collector of toys. I got everything. Name it. From the Easy Bake Oven to Barbies to every TV show doll, racing cars... I've been collecting since I was a little kid.
~ Biz Markie
As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
~ Marvin Davis
We orphans We lament to the world: Stones have become our playthings, Stones have faces, father and mother faces They wilt not like flowers, nor bite like beasts-- And burn not like tinder when tossed into the oven-- We orphans we lament to the world: World, why have you taken our soft mothers from us And the fathers who say: My child, you are like me! We orphans are like no one in the world any more! O world We accuse you!
~ Nelly Sachs
The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.
~ Author Unknown
I did have a 1977 Barbie, but I was more into stuffed animals than dolls.
~ Dylan Lauren
Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.
~ Samuel Johnson
The gods do make playthings of us," the priest-king acknowledged. "But it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
~ Melina Marchetta
The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.
~ Melina Marchetta
But one gets tired of everything, even of abusing a person. Paris abandons its puppets which it raises to the throne as quickly as it does its martyrs whom it hoists on the gibbet; in its perpetual hunger for new playthings, it never gets itself excited overly much before the statues of its heroes or at the sight of the blood of its victims.
~ Octave Mirbeau