Toddler's Swing

Life is more fun if you play games. - Roald Dahl

The gods play games with men as balls. - Titus Maccius Plautus

The true object of all human life is play. - G K Chesterton

When the cat's away, the mice will play. - French Proverb

Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.' - Casablanca

We break bones and we lose teeth. We play rugby. - Martin Johnson

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. - Theodore Roosevelt

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - Halford E Luccock

The hardest instrument in the orchestra to play is second fiddle. - Leonard Bernstein

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. - Sherman Alexie

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. - Melissa Leo

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it. - Denis Diderot

Sometimes it just feels like the only thing you do is play hockey and eat. - Henrik Lundqvist

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. - Count Basie

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live. - Henny Youngman

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old. - Groucho Marx

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. - Groucho Marx

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. - Abraham Maslow

My family was so poor that if I hadn't been born a boy, I wouldn't of had anything to play with. - Rodney Dangerfield

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. - Chris Evert

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. - Chinese Proverb

A university is an institution that has two thousand seats in the classrooms and eighty thousand in the stadium. - Unknown

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

There's an upside to grandparenthood. You play, you give, you love, then you hand them back and go to an early movie. - Billy Crystal

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. - Dr. SunWolf

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment. - Gever Tulley

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running. - Malcolm Gladwell

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. - Michael Jordan

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. - Bill Vaughan

Never play cards with a man called Doc, never eat at a place called Mom's, and never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. - Nelson Algren