Toyed Around Quotes & Sayings

Yakov spent the whole day playing his fiddle; when it got completely dark, he took the notebook in which he recorded his losses daily, and out of boredom began adding up the yearly total. It came to over a thousand roubles. This astounded him so much that he flung the abacus to the floor and stamped his feet. Then he picked up the abacus, again clicked away for a long time, and sighed deeply and tensely. His face was purple and wet with sweat. He thought that if he could have put that lost thousand roubles in the bank, he would have earned at least forty roubles a year in interest. And therefore those forty roubles were a loss. In short, wherever you turned, there was nothing but losses everywhere.
- Rothchild's Fiddle — Anton Chekhov

I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past! — Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial — George Orwell

You may be imperfect according to the world, but you're perfect in my world. — Courtney Lane

All his early dreams were the same. Something was afraid and he had come to comfort it. — Cormac McCarthy

I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry. — Kourtney Kardashian