Playthings Quotes

27 quotes by 23 authors

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. — F. H. Bradley
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. — Samuel Johnson
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. — Ugo Betti
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty. — River Phoenix
Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do… — E. J. Dionne
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry… — Pierre Charron
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds,… — Alberto Santos-Dumont
Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions. — Michel de Montaigne
To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant… — John Ray
Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a… — Tim Cahill
God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to enjoy them [in… — David Berg
There're going to be animals in God's Heaven on Earth, a New Heaven and a New Earth! God's not going to have His Creation defeated.… — David Berg
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;… — Horace Walpole
She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife. — Emily Dickinson
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so… — Kurt Vonnegut

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