Top 500 Play Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “You’re never too old to play. You’re only too old for low-rise jeans.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

152. “When the cats away, the mice will play.”

— Bob Marley

153. “At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.”

— Ian Fleming

154. “I never play the victim, I’d rather be a stalker.”

— Rihanna

155. “The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm.”

— Leonard Bernstein

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156. “The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.”

— Leonard Bernstein

157. “Play until it’s time to rest, then rest until it’s time to play.”

— Martha N. Beck

158. “The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness – it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti.”

— Sri Aurobindo

159. “When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.”

— August Wilson

160. “You know, comrade Pachman, I don’t enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

161. “One should just be able to play a perfect game.”

— Roger Federer

162. “You’ve heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It’s so simple to use, it’s unbelievable.”

— Steve Jobs

163. “If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.”

— Warren Buffett

164. “Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.”

— Warren Buffett

165. “Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

166. “Part of your mission in life then must be to share your gifts with as many people as possible. That means being willing to play big.”

— T. Harv Eker

167. “Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.”

— Orison Swett Marden

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168. “Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?”

— George R.R. Martin

169. “We’re important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.”

— Max Lucado

170. “How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It’s your choice.”

— T. Harv Eker

171. “There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.”

— Winston Churchill

172. “I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”

— Charles Bukowski

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173. “I’d rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.”

— Jim Brown

174. “September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.”

— Neil Diamond

175. “We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence...”

— Shakira

176. “It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two!”

— Ernie Banks

177. “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”

— John Cleese

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178. “I’d rather play tennis than go to the dentist. I’d rather play soccer than go to the doctor. I’d rather play Hurk than go to work. Hurk? Hurk? What’s Hurk? I don’t know but it MUST be better than work!”

— Shel Silverstein

Also featured in: Soccer Quotes

179. “If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”

— Thomas Sowell

180. “You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.”

— Richard Siken

181. “Serious art is born from serious play.”

— Julia Cameron

182. “The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.”

— Tom Brady

183. “You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.”

— Voltaire

184. “Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.”

— Bill Watterson

185. “Turn your sparring into play – but always play seriously.”

— Bruce Lee

186. “Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.”

— Paulo Coelho

187. “When we stop playing God, God can play through us.”

— Julia Cameron

188. “For you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.”

— Paul McCartney

189. “And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”

— Eckhart Tolle

190. “Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.”

— Joseph Campbell

191. “Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I’m dying and I’m having fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day because there’s no other way to play it.”

— Randy Pausch

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192. “When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over.”

— C. S. Lewis

193. “Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.”

— Michel de Montaigne

194. “The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

195. “Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.”

— Claude Debussy

196. “I think life is a big game we play.”

— Eric Cantona

197. “The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we’re in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.”

— Vin Diesel

198. “I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.”

— Boris Becker

199. “The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.”

— Warren Buffett

200. “Never play a thing the same way twice.”

— Louis Armstrong