Explore 'Play'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Friedrich Schiller

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.

Lionel Messi

You kids shouldn’t play so rough . . . somebody’s gonna start crying.

Michael Madsen

Children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne

A little work, a little play, To keep us going – and so, good-day!

George du Maurier

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

George Eliot

Children’s games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Michel de Montaigne

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

Walter Scott

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

Hill Harper

I grew up in a fun-loving environment – you work hard and play hard.

Hunter Hayes

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

J. G. Holland

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

J. J. Abrams

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

Heraclitus

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Heraclitus

One will only be free when one plays and one’s society will become a piece of art.

Herbert Marcuse

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

Herbert Read

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

Jane McGonigal

Everything is about balance. You can’t work, work, work, work without any play.

Janelle Monae

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that’s pretty cool.

Alison Bechdel

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