20 Marbles Quotes for You to Enjoy

At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable. Leonard Cohen

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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sports Way Expensive Regard Golf Marbles Playing

I have never had other kids in the house... I had a huge collection of marbles, and they all had names, which I think concerned my parents. I used to go and sweep outside and talk to myself, and my mum's friends would be over and say, 'Do you realise she is talking to herself?' Alexandra Adornetto

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In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries. David Sax

Sets Released More Magnetic Powerful Countries Since Most Toy Became Cube Selling Than Curiously Popular Novelty Marbles Million Units

Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals? Emile Galle

Own Ability Crystals Rock Marbles

I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner. Gerry Cooney

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Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own. Jean Piaget

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The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall. John Dickerson

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The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. Martin Filler

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I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice. Mary Berry

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles. Melina Mercouri

Such Things Marbles Things

Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn't fit in with any genres - you never know if he's gonna sing, like, the Bee Gees or some crazy, distorted thing. And you don't know what he's saying half the time. He's kind of like Michael McDonald, like he's got marbles in his mouth. Mike Dean

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Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel. Robert Mondavi

Else Excel Football Wanted Anything Anything Else Whether Slam Marbles Played

I hate losing. Whether it's marbles, spades, blackjack, whatever it is. Odell Beckham, Jr.

Hate Losing Whatever Blackjack Whether Marbles

If I'm a national treasure, does that mean I'm like the Elgin Marbles and will get repatriated at some point? Bill Bailey

Will National Some Point Like Does Get Mean Marbles Treasure

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