Is this the origin a there s no mention of marbles in j m barrie s original 1904 play peter pan.
Peter pan i found my marbles.
Is this the origin.
I m an orphan and i ve never done drugs because i missed the sixties i was an accountant.
Unlike toodles a fictitious character my marbles can be lost or wasted but they can never be found.
Upon finding his marbles he became more spontaneous and joyful over the fact that he hadn t really lost his marbles and he was a whole functioning person as he believed he once was.
Being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles.
Being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles.
Well i ve not lost but i think i ve misplaced my joy.
You re a you re a complex freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother and i don t know why you have wings but you have very lovely legs and you re a very nice tiny person and what am i saying i don t know who my mother was.
As time passes the vase gets emptier reminding me that each day is precious my marbles are precious.
In peter pan who was it that said i ve lost my marbles.
Later in neverland thud butt gives peter a small bag containing tootles marbles revealing that they were his happy thoughts and he lost them literally rather than.
The marbles represented at least to him a source balance or logic in his life without which he came to see himself as a bumbling idiot.
The daily pleasures that keep me free to live my best life each day.
Tootles is the peter pan character who is seen searching for something on the floor and explains i ve lost my marbles in the movie hook.