Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old toy quotes, toy sayings, and toy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. Susan Stewart
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Toys were lots of fun before they became capitalist tools.Beth Copeland
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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.Emma Goldman
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Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.Gloria Estefan
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The best toys are 90 per cent kid, 10 per cent toy, with play fueled largely by the child's imagination.Josh Golin
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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
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If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?Steven Wright
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. Richard Buckminster Fuller
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A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.Brian Sutton-Smith
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Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.Pietro Aretino
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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
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He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. Anonymous
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.Lewis Mumford
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The best toys are like unicorns. They include enough horse to seem real, but enough horn to become magical.Amber & Andy Ankowski
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It's the broken toys that need the most love and attention.Anthony T. Hincks
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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.Christopher Lasch
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.Tom Robbins
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.Sam Levenson
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. Henry David Thoreau
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.Eric Hoffer
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A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp. Michael Frayn
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What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.Gene Fowler
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.Harrison Ford
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90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves.Sean Lock
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Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Toys are children's words and play is their language.Garry L. Landreth
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Sports is the toy department of human life.Howard Cosell
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The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.William Blake
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.Idries Shah