Homo Ludens Quotes

#1. Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.

Jacques Barzun

#2. We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk.
We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset.
We did not say: We insist on going with you.
We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.

John Green

#3. Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Augustine Of Hippo

#4. What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

Plautus

#5. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

#6. The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

William Glasser

#7. They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

Babe Ruth

#8. This is Lonesome Ridge, so we'd be the lonesome young," I pointed out. "Sounds like a song."
"Sounds like a heartache," he said, tightening his arms around me and resting his cheek on the top of my heard. "I don't want to be lonesome. I want to be with you.

Lucy Connors

#9. Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

Dean Koontz

#10. Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

Joe Cocker

#11. When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

Daniel Handler