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

—Bill Watterson

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

 —Ellie Katz

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

—Ovid

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

—Molier

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

—Plato

Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.

—Charlie Parker

It is better to play than do nothing.

—Confucius

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

—G.K. Chesterton

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

—Roger von Oech

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

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

—Joseph Chilton Pearce

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius — versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

—Mary Russell Mitford