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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum." »Thomas Szasz
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"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own." »Michael Konda
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"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them." »Alan B. Watts
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." »Charles Dickens
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"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period" »Antonio Gramsci
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"Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long." »William Congreve
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"There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough." »William Zinsser
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"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air." »Julie Arabi
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"Every child deserves a home and love. period." »Dave Thomas
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"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time." »Sydney Harris
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"I am not confident unless I am playing someone else." »Shahrukh Khan
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"The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing." »George Bernard Shaw
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"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside." »Pearl Bailey
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"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits - either now or in the future. period." »Barack Obama
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"The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun." »Author Unknown
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"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe." »Harry Gray
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"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere." »Pablo Picasso
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"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." »Voltaire
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"God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles." »G.K. Chesterton
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"If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work." »William Shakespeare
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"Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler
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"If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work." »William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
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"Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field." »John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
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"We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing." »Charles Schaefer
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"playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast." »Pressbox Maxim
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