It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.                                 —Leo Buscaglia

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.                —Joseph Chilton Pearce

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.                  —Ovid

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

—Bill Watterson

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you are doing is work or play.     —Warren Beatty

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.    —Mark Twain

If I get to pick what I want to do, then it’s play...if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it’s work.           —Patricia Nourot

Our minds need relaxation and give way / Unless we mix with work a little play.             —Molier

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

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.              —Heraclitus

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.                                —Carl Jung

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.               —G.K. Chesterton

The world is your playground. Why aren’t you playing?

—Ellie Katz

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

– Mickey Mantle

It is better to play than do nothing.                                 —Confucius

He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way.           —proverb

Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good.

                                                                                  —Lucia Capocchione

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

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

                                                                                —Friedrich Nietzsche

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

– George Bernard Shaw