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 is the beginning of knowledge.Anonymous
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Never play anything the same way twice.Louis Armstrong
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Play energizes us and enlivens us. It eases our burdens. It renews our natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities.Stuart Brown
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Play needs direction as well as work.Elbert Hubbard
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.Johan Huizinga
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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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Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.Johannes Itten
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Play is the work of childhood.Jean Piaget
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.Plato
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard Shaw
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Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.Kay Redfield Jamison
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.Carl Jung
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Play is the highest form of research.Albert Einstein
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Play is the exultation of the possible.Martin Buber
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It is better to play than do nothing.Confucius
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It is a happy talent to know how to play.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.Charles Schaefer
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.Miles Davis
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Play, while it cannot change the external realities of children's lives, can be a vehicle for children to explore and enjoy their differences and similarities and to create, even for a brief time, a more just world where everyone is an equal and valued participant.Patricia G. Ramsey
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.Jawaharlal Nehru
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Man's most serious activity is play.George Santayana
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Life is more fun if you play games.Roald Dahl
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Play is your route to mastery.Sara Genn
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.George Bernard Shaw
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Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.O. Fred Donaldson
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Play is our brain's favourite way of learning.Diane Ackerman
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When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.Jim Rohn
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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
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Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn't taste good.Lucia Capocchione