Quotes of: Plaything Keyword

Every age wants its playthings.

French

When a lion is old, he becomes the plaything of jackals.

Iranian

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be...

Corey Taylor

In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism, which found man an object made up of organized matter; in comparison with catholicism, which saw him as the unwitting plaything of an imperious ...

Ali Shariati

We are the playthings of the gods.

Roger Ebert

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

What he would have given to be that plaything in her hands...

Natural Selection

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Benjamin Franklin

literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.

Finnikin of the Rock

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

John Collison

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 neighbour by his own nature.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.

Suzy Menkes

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International...

David Lange

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

Andre Breton

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.

James Wolcott

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.

Stephen Baker