Top 500 Play Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.”

— John Mason Brown

252. “Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards.”

— George Carlin

253. “God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can’t see them.”

— Stephen Hawking

254. “When you’re following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.”

— Shakti Gawain

255. “The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”

— Dr. Seuss

256. “The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas’d to the last he crops the flow’ry food, And licks the hand just rais’d to shed his blood.”

— Alexander Pope

257. “I’m gonna tie you up, blind fold you, and we gonna play which hole feel the best.”

— Tupac Shakur

258. “If there’s grass in the field, play ball!”

— William J. Clinton

259. “The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.”

— Tom Waits

260. “If you got up on the bandstand at Minton’s and couldn’t play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.”

— Miles Davis

261. “One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.”

— John Wooden

262. “I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don’t have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.”

— Isaac Asimov

263. “If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it’s the ball that decides the speed of the game.”

— Johan Cruijff

264. “Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.”

— Margaret Mitchell

265. “Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.”

— Boethius

266. “Put your ego aside and play as a team.”

— Sonny Bono

267. “I’ll write for a while and then I’ll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.”

— Quentin Tarantino

268. “Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.”

— Nelson Mandela

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269. “Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.”

— Alexander Alekhine

270. “Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”

— Jane Goodall

271. “Play what you know and then play above that.”

— Miles Davis

272. “Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.”

— Willie Nelson

273. “I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.”

— Will Smith

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274. “When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.”

— Miles Davis

275. “Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.”

— Melody Beattie

276. “I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I’ll dance.”

— Gael Garcia Bernal

277. “I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

278. “The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance – even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward – even if he plays for a pennant winner.”

— Warren Buffett

279. “Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.”

— Yann Martel

280. “Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

281. “Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

282. “I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”

— Lady Gaga

283. “Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”

— Tennessee Williams

284. “About winning and losing: It isn’t important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!”

— Robert Fulghum

285. “Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.”

— Mason Cooley

286. “I work hard but I play hard.”

— Kenny Chesney

287. “A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.”

— Pablo Neruda

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288. “In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.”

— Nolan Bushnell

289. “You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.”

— Roger Federer

290. “Those who play a safe game die very safely.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

291. “You can do anything with children if you only play with them.”

— Otto von Bismarck

292. “We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.”

— Miles Davis

293. “He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.”

— Chuck Berry

294. “When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski

295. “I would always play the baddie, incidentally.”

— Tom Hiddleston

296. “Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.”

— John Cale

297. “Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how people in other countries live and work and play teaches us to respect them and promote peace everywhere.”

— Carol Bellamy

298. “They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.”

— Richard Wright

299. “Education isn’t play – and it can’t be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

300. “The play is not in the words, it’s in you!”

— Stella Adler