Quotes of Play - somelinesforyou

“ If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! ”

- Christopher Marlowe

“ 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

“ I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ He who dies with the most toys wins. ”

- Unknown

“ The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top. ”

- Pete Dye

“ Don't play for safety — it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ”

- Sir Hugh Walpole

“ For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes — not that you won or lost — but how you played the Game. ”

- Grantland Rice

“ Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I think both teams are evenly matched, ... Both teams played real well. This is a typical game between the two schools. ”

- James Monroe

“ Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me. ”

- David Beckham

“ 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

“ You play the way you practice. ”

- Pop Warner

“ 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

“ Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. ”

- Marshal Ferdinand Foch

“ Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich — something for nothing. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Everyone wants to win their first game, and everyone wants it to be just like college, but it's not. ”

- Peyton Manning

“ I don't know if you can have a perfect game. But it seemed liked they were getting open and grabbing onto everything I threw. The offensive line was great. I didn't get sacked. ”

- Chris Edwards

“ The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ”

- Paul Fussell

“ For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? ”

- Jane Austen

“ The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet. ”

- Damon Runyon

“ I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. ”

- Tiger Woods

“ The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost. ”

- Murray Kempton

“ If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ”

- Bob Hope

“ And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are. ”

- Cornelius Krasel

“ Give me a man who says, "This one thing I do," and not, "These fifty things, I dabble in.". ”

- Dwight L. Moody
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