Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

—H.G. Wells

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

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

—Mark Twain

If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.

—Walter B. Pitkin

Eat with the rich, but go play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

—Charles Schaefer

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

—G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

—George Bernard Shaw