Play Quotes

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes.

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

If there's grass in the field, play ball!

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.

When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.

A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.

How every fool can play upon the word!

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.

And what’s he then that says I play the villain?

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.

Sometimes I do feel a little pressure, but not that much because we play different positions.

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

After every tour, I think about hanging up the touring hat, and after a while of not working, I'm ready to play. I think I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy not playing music.

Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.

I'm not really sick of people whipping their hair. It doesn't really get old. They're fans and I love them! It's just a fun game to play.

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barça - and for everyone in football.

When Im not working... Im an actor! Im auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.

When you play good, everything is good, but when you dont play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.