Quotes of Plaything - somelinesforyou

“ No wonder Santa Claus is a jolly old fellow: Dad pays for all the toys, and Santa gets all the credit. ”

- Evan Esar

“ I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. ”

- Bernard Manning

“ You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by. ”

- Steven Wright

“ He who dies with the most toys wins. ”

- Unknown

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

- Idries Shah

“ Now I lay me down to sleep,I pray the Lord my soul to keep,And if I die before I wake,I pray the Lord my toys will breakSo none of the other kids can use 'em....Amen. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an attitude of "comfortability." They may be going to hell, but it is going to be a comfortable ride for them. ”

- A. W. Tozer

“ Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ What most youngsters would like for Christmas is something to separate the men from the toys. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. ”

- Unknown

“ We must not forget that the most enduring modifications in toys are never the work of adults, whether they be educators, manufacturers or writers, but are the result of children at play. ”

- Walter Benjamin

“ No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer. ”

- Stephen King

“ Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Men deal with life as children with their play,Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. ”

- William Cowper

“ Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining. ”

- Cher

“ I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. ”

- Joan Rivers

“ The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. ”

- Margaret Junkin Preston

“ A child's a plaything for an hour. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before! ”

- Robert Blair

“ The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods. ”

- Unknown

“ A book that furnishes no quotations is no book — it is a plaything. ”

- Thomas Love Peacock

“ 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. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ No wonder Santa Claus is a jolly old fellow: Dad pays for all the toys, and Santa gets all the credit. ”

- Evan Esar

“ I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. ”

- Bernard Manning

“ You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by. ”

- Steven Wright

“ He who dies with the most toys wins. ”

- Unknown
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