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“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
“God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. ”
— Stephen Hawking
“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ”
— Stephen Hawking
“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.”
— Honore de Balzac
“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart”
— Honore de Balzac
“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The mind cannot long play the heart's role.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. ”
— Willie Nelson
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