Play Quotes

“QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.”

“If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.”

“To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.”

“Contemporary American psychiatristIt is a happy talent to know how to play.”

“You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.”

“A moody child and wildly wisePursued the game with joyful eyes,Which chose, like meteors, their way,And rived the dark with private ray.”

“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”

“Do you have any toy train schedules?”

“I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit .”

“Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.”

“If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.”

“Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?”

“...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.”

“Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.”

“Not by force shall the children learn, but through play”

“The playthings of our elders are called business.”

“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.”

“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.”

“We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year”

“Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.”

“You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.”

“I have fun with ideas; I play with them.”

“Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.”

“When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.”

“An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.”