We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. – Anon.
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. – Eric Berne
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. – Anita Brookner
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. – Frank Moore Colby
Ill play with it first and tell you what it is later. – Bette Davis
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
The number of people that will not go to a show they dont want to see is unlimited. – Oscar Hammerstein
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. – Eric Hoffer
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. – Elbert Hubbard
Play needs direction as well as work. – Elbert Hubbard
Life isnt all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishmans education. – Thomas Hughes
Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless youre the king. – Josephine Hull
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. – Samuel Johnson
If youre playing a poker game and you look around the table and and cant tell who the sucker is, its you. – Paul Newman
The last act crowns the play. – John Ruskin
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. – Friedrich von Schiller
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. – William Shakespeare
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. – George Bernard Shaw
He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time. – George Bernard Shaw
