Swing With A View

What we play is life. - Louis Armstrong

To play it safe is not to play. - Robert Altman

It is better to play than do nothing. - Confucius

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

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

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. - Chinese Proverb

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. - Diane Ackerman

When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles. - Pooh Bear

I would rather play a gloating winner than a sobbing loser. - Unknown

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

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. - Unknown

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings. - Jay London

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

You'd play me chess, about which I don't even know how to deal. - Archie Bunker

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

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. - Roger von Oech

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - Gene Perret

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

A recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. - Madame Benoit

Our team lives hockey, it dreams hockey, it eats hockey. Now if it could only play hockey. - Milton Berle

My mom was fair. You never knew whether she was going to swing with her right or her left. - Herb Caen

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

When they start the game, they don't yell, 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.' - Willie Stargell

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win. - Robert Heinlein

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

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

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope

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

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently. - Palladas

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

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

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. - Friedrich Frobel

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking. - Tyler Hamilton

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

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. - George Carlin

Lawyers have the singular distinction of being able to play the hero and villain at the same time. Depending on where you stand in a courthouse. - Lenox Mhlanga

Animals are like little angels sent to earth to teach us how to love. They don't get angry or play silly games. They are always there for us. - Whitney Mandel