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

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |

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

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Samuel Johnson |

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.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Francis H Bradley |

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 playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Henri Frederic Amiel |

Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |

Men who treat women as helpless and charming playthings deserve women who treat men as delightful and generous bank accounts.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | GQ |