Play Quotes

"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice."
-Albert Einstein

"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
-Oscar Wilde

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
-Oscar Wilde

"Sometimes in poker, no matter how you play the hand, you can go broke on it because you have a hand that you just can't get away from. Sometimes it works out that way."
-Aaron Rosenberg

"In the summer he broke his wrist and couldn't play with us. He still came to events, sat on the bench, cheered on his teammates. I think that said a lot about him. We came in and had the best preseason we've ever had because guys were really committed. He's one of the guys who led the charge into us getting ready for the season."
-Aaron Rosenberg

"It is better to play than do nothing."
-Confucius

"You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."
-Joe Paterno

"I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars."
-Honus Wagner

"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."
-Charles Williams

"I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run."
-Bill Dickey

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
-Miles Davis

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule."
-Barbara Jordan

"Let him who plays the monarch be a king; Who plays the rogue, be perfect in his part."
-Thomas Erskine

"Play is the exultation of the possible."
-Martin Buber

"To love the game beyond the prize."
-Henry Newbolt

"How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts."
-Jackie Robinson

"I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia."
-Richie Allen

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."
-Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."
-Miles Davis

"They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks."
-Andy Van Slyke

"Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove."
-Isaac Stern

"My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play."
-Francis Quarles

"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play."
-Albert Einstein

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
-Albert Einstein

"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

"History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."
-Voltaire

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."
-Aristotle