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Familiar Quotations

Toys

Anything not nailed down is a cat toy.–Anonymous

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.–Anonymous

In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.–Anonymous

Where does he get those wonderful toys?–Batman

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.–Robert Burton

A nation declines when its people become too serious to set their hearts on toys.–Eric Hoffer

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.–Christopher Marlowe

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.–Ezra Pound

Toys – "Play"

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.–Anonymous

Play the music, not the instrument.–Anonymous

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Toys 1
• Toys – "Play" 1
• Toys – "Trifling" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Toys 4
• Toys – "Amusing" 15
• Toys – "Arms" 16
• Toys – "Beings" 16
• Toys – "Black" 17
• Toys – "Bought" 17
• Toys – "Boxes" 18
• Toys – "Bright" 18
• Toys – "Broken" 19
• Toys – "Carry" 19
• Toys – "Chance" 20
• Toys – "Child" 21
• Toys – "Days" 27
• Toys – "Delight" 28
• Toys – "Done" 29
• Toys – "Eyes" 29
• Toys – "Family" 30
• Toys – "Fashion" 30
• Toys – "Foot" 31
• Toys – "Finger" 31
• Toys – "Finished" 32
• Toys – "Found" 33
• Toys – "Gladness" 33
• Toys – "Glass" 34
• Toys – "Going" 34
• Toys – "Great" 35
• Toys – "Hand" 36
• Toys – "Heard" 38
• Toys – "Herself" 39
• Toys – "Home" 39
• Toys – "Houses" 40
• Toys – "Idea" 40
• Toys – "Kind" 41
• Toys – "Little" 41
• Toys – "Looking" 45
• Toys – "Loving" 47
• Toys – "Making" 48
• Toys – "Men" 51
• Toys – "Minute" 52
• Toys – "Natural" 53
• Toys – "Night" 53
• Toys – "Nothing" 53
• Toys – "Old" 54
• Toys – "Once" 55
• Toys – "People" 56
• Toys – "Place" 57
• Toys – "Play" 57
• Toys – "Playthings" 59
• Toys – "Pleased" 59
• Toys – "Poor" 60
• Toys – "Present" 60
• Toys – "Room" 61
• Toys – "Shops" 62
• Toys – "Showed" 62
• Toys – "Sat" 63
• Toys – "Soldiers" 64
• Toys – "Stockings" 65
• Toys – "Thing" 65
• Toys – "Thinking" 67
• Toys – "Tired" 69
• Toys – "White" 69
• Toys – "Women's" 70
• Toys – "Word" 70
• Toys – "Years" 71
• Toys – "Youngest" 72
• Nonfiction Usage 73
• Script Usage 73
• Tongue-Twister Usage 75
• Journalism Usage 75
• Legal Usage 104
• Governmental Usage 108
• Patent Usage 113
• Bibliographic Usage 129
• Encyclopedic Usage 241
• Lexicographic Usage 271
• Index 348