1. It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.-Brandon Sanderson
2. We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.-Benjamin Franklin
3. There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.-James P. Carse
4. It is in games that many men discover their paradise.-Robert Wilson Lynd
5. At the games end we shall see who gaines.-George Herbert
6. All games contain the idea of death.-Jim Morrison
7. You never win any games you don’t play.-Mark Cuban
8. To play a good game, you need a few players.-R.J. Torbert
9. If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.-William Shakespeare
10. For a game, you don’t need a teacher.-Dejan Stojanovic
11. Games are all about taking risks.-James Altucher
12. A play visibly represents pure existing.-Thornton Wilder
13. Games give you a chance to excel, and if you’re playing in good company you don’t even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.-Gary Gygax
14. Life is a game. We must keep playing the game. The more we play, the more we will understand the game of life.-Lailah Gifty Akita
15. Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.-Patrick Marleau
16. Games are the only force in the known universe that can get people to take actions against their self-interest, in a predictable way, without using force.-Gabe Zichermann
17. Life is more fun if you play games.-Roald Dahl
18. By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.-Nate Silver
19. In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.-George Bernard Shaw
20. Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Games shouldn’t only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.-Hideo Kojima
22. Games are the most elevated form of investigation.-Albert Einstein
23. There’s a difference between fair game and playing games.-Hillary Clinton
24. Never play cat and mouse games if you’re a mouse.-Don Addis
25. There are games in which it is better to lose than win.-Plautus
26. You play games with people’s lives. You forget that they are fragile.-Patricia Briggs
27. The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.-Scott Brooks
28. There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.-Ernest Hemingway
29. All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.-B.K.S. Iyengar
30. If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.-Anonymous