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A Select Collection of Play Quotes

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When was the last time that you played an enjoyable game? If you quit playing because it is a child's sport, then you are wrong. As George Bernard Shaw said, "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

Kahlil Gibran
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Henry Van Dyke
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Thomas J Watson, Sr.
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Anonymous
It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Heraclitus
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Roger von Oech
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

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

Gelett Burgess
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Mark Twain
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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

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