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Playthings Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
- Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.
More Playthings Quotes
- We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but… — F. H. Bradley
- Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. — Samuel Johnson
- Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict.… — 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.… — Pierre Charron
- 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… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty. — River Phoenix