Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old play quotes, play sayings, and play proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.Frank Caplan
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Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.Abraham Maslow
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.John Cleese
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We only get to play this game one time, one life.Gary Vaynerchuk
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.Miles Davis
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A child loves his play, not because it's easy, but because it's hard.Benjamin Spock
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Play to win, but enjoy the fun.David Ogilvy
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If you want to play, you gotta pay.Stephen King
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Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Play is the work of the child.Maria Montessori
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Whoever wants to understand much must play much.Gottfried Benn
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Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.Mike Singletary
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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.Michael Jordan
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Play is training for the unexpected.Marc Bekoff
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Work while you work, play while you play this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.Theodor Adorno
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Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you.Adolf Hitler
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.Albert Einstein
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I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.Alexander Fleming
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.Arnold J. Toynbee
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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.Casey Stengel
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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!Charlie Chaplin
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You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. Chris Evert
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.Emily Dickinson
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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.Erik Erikson
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.Friedrich Nietzsche
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The true object of all human life is play.G. K. Chesterton
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Play is the beginning of knowledge.George Dorsey
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.Henry Van Dyke
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.Heraclitus