Swing With A View

It is better to play than do nothing. - Confucius

It is a happy talent to know how to play. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Love is a game that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor

Some guys play hockey. Gretzky plays 40-mph chess. - Lowell Cohn

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost

My favorite part of the game? The opportunity to play. - Mike Singletary

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living. - Julius Boros

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. - Ronald Dahl

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

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

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

God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball. - LeBron James

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

I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it. - Jack Charlton

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

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. - Brett Hull

Play for the name on the front of the shirt and they'll remember the name on the back. - Unknown

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters. - Dakota Fanning

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. - Montaigne

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play and to look up at the stars. - Henry van Dyke

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. - Athol Fugard

May I never be drunk enough to try to play a foosball table alone like that dude over there who actually is. - Dr. Okay Times

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie. - Christopher Walken

Play is a vital learning medium for a child. In a sense play is his work. And he discovers knowledge for himself. - Raymond Moore

We can't win at home, we can't win away. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play. - Jock Brown

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on The Golden Girls. They age you so fast. - Gabrielle Union

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. - Garrison Keillor

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. - Michael J. Fox

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a technical challenge, just to get into it. - Ton Stoppard

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. - Robert Mugabe

An expert is somebody who is more than fifty miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides. - Edwin Meese

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

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. - Tennessee Williams