Quotes About Play

For many years the conviction has grown upon me that civilization arises and unfolds in and as play.

El club corresponde al juego como el sombrero a la cabeza

The view we take in the following pages is that culture arises in the form of play, that it is played from the very beginning. Even those activities which aim at the immediate satisfaction of vital needs--hunting, for instance--tend, in archaic society, to take on the play form. Social life is endued with supra-biological forms, in the shape of play, which enhance its value. It is through this playing that society expresses its interpretation of life and the world.

I too play with symbols... but I play in such a way that I do not forget that I am playing. For nothing is proved by symbols... unless by sure reasons it can be demonstrated that they are not merely symbolic but are descriptions of the ways in which the two things are connected and of the causes of this connection.

Friendship with children increases the pleasure of life.

It is a true pleasure to live in a century in which such great events take place, provided that one can take shelter in some little corner and watch the play in comfort. (attributed to N. Poussin)

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

It's so unfair, I don't see whij I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there's no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends are probably playing for hours every day, I'll have to speak to Father about it.

many adults see play as idleness, and idleness as the proverbial "devil's workshop.

The day shall dawn when never child but may Go forth upon the sward secure to play. No cruel wolves shall trespass in their nooks, Their lore of lions shall come from picture-books.

Success always comes at a price. That is a lesson I learned a long time ago. My father taught me that a person can pay now and play later, or he can play now and pay later. Either way, he is going to pay.

The first was that the creative architects knew how to play.

Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among yourselves, and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and children, like the rain, whose causing the vegetation to grow, pleases the husbandmen, then it withers away so that you will see it become yellow, then it becomes dried up and broken down; and in the hereafter is a severe chastisement and (also) forgiveness from Allah and (His) pleasure; and this world's life is naught but means of deception.

I knew the risks of this game, before I began to play, and now I must pay, for I have lost the game.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

I wish I could go to school without studying, and just have fun with my friends.

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

As that I went to say, No more were we at play.

Boy: Let's play a game. Any game you want, just not hide and seek. Girl: Why not hide and seek? Boy: Because a girl like you is impossible to find.

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.