Play Sayings and Quotes

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.

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. J. D. Salinger
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. Jean Piaget
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. Leo F. Buscaglia
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes. Marshall McLuhan
Life is a game, play it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Mother Teresa
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning. Mr. Rogers
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. Pablo Neruda
Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play. Plato
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. Roger Von Oech
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it! Sathya Sai Baba
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. Scotty Bowman
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. Sigmund Freud
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. Stephen Nachmanovitch
Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor. Stuart Brown
When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all. Theodore Roosevelt
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time Vince Lombardi
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. Voltaire