Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Play Quotes
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child […]
The world is your playground. Why aren’t you playing?
But helpless pieces in the game he plays, upon his checkerboard of nights and days. Hither and thither he moves and checks and slays, And one by one back in the chess box lays.
You can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd, You can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd.
If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life.
I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet (on his golf game). (Cassius Clay)
A man’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
Science is one thing and Wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
