Playground Mistakes

To play it safe is not to play. - Robert Altman

Life is more fun if you play games. - Roald Dahl

It is better to play than do nothing. - Confucius

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

If you don't play to win, why keep score? - Unknown

Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. - Unknown

Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. - Oscar Wilde

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. - Theodore Roosevelt

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock

Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. - Oscar Wilde

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. - Dag Hammarskjold

Sometimes it just feels like the only thing you do is play hockey and eat. - Henrik Lundqvist

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

Tupac was one of the biggest thugs I know - and he always wore his seat belt. - Ice Cube

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - Gene Perret

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. - Count Basie

Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs. - Robin Williams

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. - Will Rogers

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live. - Henny Youngman

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. - Brett Hull

My mom was fair. You never knew whether she was going to swing with her right or her left. - Herb Caen

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. - Christopher Walken

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting! - Ewan McGregor

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. - Phyllis Diller

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently. - Palladas

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look. - Christopher Walken

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. - Darell Hammond

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. - Garrison Keillor

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running. - Malcolm Gladwell

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. - Friedrich Frobel

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. - Rita Rudner

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. - Robert Mugabe

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

Never play cards with a man called Doc, never eat at a place called Mom's, and never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. - Nelson Algren