Quotes About Playfulness

I am going to be careful not to make too much sense

May love to drop things so you'll pick them up (which is indicative of a growing sense of object permanence — and a little sense of humor). Engages in

A fart in the face is love.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

She giggled. "I'm glad you're fine, because I'm looking forward to teasing you for the next ten years about that scream. Even I can't hit a note that high.

There is, however, a familiar form of playfulness often associated with situations protected from consequence-where no matter what we do (within certain limits), nothing will come of it. This is not playing so much as playing at, a harmless disregard for social constraints. While this is by no means excluded from infinite play, it is not the same as infinite play.

Look, here comes Twinkletoes, said Bunny, busying himself with the menu.

With kindness, playfulness, wit, and wisdom, he would explain "things hard for us to understand by stories—maxims—tales and figures. He would almost always point his lesson or idea by some story that was plain and near as that we might instantly see the force & bearing of what he said." He understood early on that concrete examples and stories provided the best vehicles for teaching.

Are you by any chance …' said Lymond. '… baiting you?' Philippa said. 'Only when you are inclined to be magisterial.' 'Oh, good God,' Lymond said. 'Kate must be out of her mind.' 'And thank heaven you aren't my father?' said Philippa. 'Roughly,' said Lymond, and began to laugh, and then stopped.

Thank you. This line of salt is the beach. And this piece of bread is a rock at low-water level.' Wimsey twitched his chair closer to the table. 'And this salt-spoon,' he said, with childlike enjoyment, 'can be the body.

Ah! childhood! You're living the happiest days of your life, young man. You won't believe me, but you are.

Tommy and his little playmates don't regard being young as just one of those things that are likely to happen to anybody. They make a business of it. And

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

He actually caught himself saying things like Yippee, as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

Well, I wouldn't overstress that angle, you know,' he said finally, 'one's never alone with a rubber duck.

My dear Boris, can you not take a joke?" "Was it a joke?

one of the best things that can happen to you is, i think, a happy childhood.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

Maybe what we can do when we feel overwhelmed is to start small. Start with what we have loved as kids and see where that leads us.

Gohan...Is that sunburn or are you blushing?

There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.