#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.”

“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.”

“When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.”

“All men would still really like to own a train set.”

“Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.”

“Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.”

“Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.”

“I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.”

“The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.”

“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

“And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.”

“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”

“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.”

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”

“The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.”

“I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.”

“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”

“The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.”

“There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.”

“I simply do not distinguish between work and play.”

“In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.”

“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”

“And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.”

“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”

“For youth, everything is sport.”

“The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.”