Play Quotes

Most popular play quotes

To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well. - George Santayana quote.
To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.

work & play

It is a happy talent to know how to play. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are. - Ovid quote.
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid The Art of Love
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. - Fred Rogers quote.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

childhood

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato quote.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

character

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. - Mark Twain quote.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

work

At the center of everything we call "the arts," and children call "play," is something which seems somehow alive. - Lynda Barry quote.
At the center of everything we call "the arts," and children call "play," is something which seems somehow alive.

art

The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline.  In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. - Madelein K. L'Engle quote.
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline.  In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

concentration

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

work & play

Play is an activity enjoyed for its own sake.  It is our brain's favorite way of learning and maneuvering. - Diane Ackerman quote.
Play is an activity enjoyed for its own sake.  It is our brain's favorite way of learning and maneuvering.
We do not stop playing because we grow old.  We grow old because we stop playing.
Play is what lifts people out of the mundane.  I sometimes compare play to oxygen—it's all around us, yet goes mostly unnoticed or unappreciated until it is missing.
Stuart Brown, M.D. Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
Play is the exultation of the possible. - Martin Buber quote.
Play is the exultation of the possible.
The true object of all human life is play.  Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
The true object of all human life is play.  Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. - Erik Erikson quote.
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
Play needs direction as well as work. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
Play needs direction as well as work.

work & play

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him, and he will certainly miss him. - Pablo Neruda quote.
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him, and he will certainly miss him.
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

sports

Play is the real work of childhood. - Fred Rogers quote.
Play is the real work of childhood.
Fred Rogers You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages From a Beloved Neighbor
Deep meaning oft lies hid in childish play. - Friedrich Schiller quote.
Deep meaning oft lies hid in childish play.
Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
If necessity is the mother of invention, play is the father.
This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.  And instead of calling it work, realize that it is play.

work & play

There is for many a poverty of play and cultural life.