Where there is neither love nor hatred in the game, woman’s play is mediocre.
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? – come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.[Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime]
The maturity of man — that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Play with the devil and you get burned.
One should always play fairly… when one has the winning cards.
In the true man there is a child hidden: it wanteth to play.
In order to escape ennui, a man either works beyond the extent of his former necessities, or he invents play, that is to say, work that is only intended to appeas the general necessity for work.
If one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.