Northrop Frye Quotes

I'm interested in playing, not working.

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Play is just another version of work

I just play for fun.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

I want to play. I want to play as much as I can.

When it stops being fun, that's when I'll stop playing.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Life is more fun if you play games.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

The game is meant to be fun.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

Games have no other purpose than to please.

You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If it's not fun, what's the point.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

I love to play. That's always been my passion.

When you have fun doing something, it stops being work, really.

Wherever you play, you just want to have fun.