“ 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 and sun. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
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“ The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ”
- Joe E. Lewis- Copy
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“ At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ”
- Thomas Tusser- Copy
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“ Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully. ”
- Scott Alexander- Copy
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“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
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“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win… channel your energy. Focus. ”
- Carl Lewis- Copy
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“ Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.". ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
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“ When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ”
- Paul Fussell- Copy
- 1.2K
“ By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd,The sports of children satisfy the child. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. ”
- J. M. Synge- Copy
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“ I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part. ”
- Nadia Boulanger- Copy
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“ It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.". ”
- Eric Clapton- Copy
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“ I can't think of anyone who knew how to play comedy better than Ronnie Barker and I count myself enormously fortunate to have known and worked with him. ”
- Michael Palin- Copy
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“ Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2K
“ Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 4K
“ Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. ”
- John Heywood- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top. ”
- Pete Dye- Copy
- 3K
“ I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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