Casts Quote by William Cowper

Men are ruled by toys.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Children need adult men in their lives.

— Emily Yoffe

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

As the fathers live, so the children play.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

— Idries Shah

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

— Warren Farrell

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations…

— John Bartholomew Gough

Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come…

— John Locke

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That's what happens when they give guys like me a television show: you try and get toys and Garbage Pail Kids!

— Adam F. Goldberg

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

— Aristotle