play quotes

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

— Isaac Newton

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

— Josh Billings

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

— Winston Churchill

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

— Nelson Mandela

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”

— Charlie Chaplin

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“At any rate, I am convinced that He - God, does not play dice.”

— Albert Einstein

“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.”

— Michael Jordan

“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

— Albert Einstein

“Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.”

— Paul McCartney

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.”

— Terry Pratchett

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

— Plato

“Life must be lived as play.”

— Plato

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”

— Heraclitus

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

— Carl Jung

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

— Voltaire

“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”

— Sigmund Freud

“I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.”

— Billy Idol

“The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ”

— Phyllis Diller

play quotes

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. ”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ”

“At any rate, I am convinced that He - God, does not play dice.”

“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.”

“Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.”

“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

“Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.”

“Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.”

“Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.”

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

“Life must be lived as play.”

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”

“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”

“I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.”

“The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.”

“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

“The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ”