Mojo's favorite quotes

"A creature that once knows the pleasure of play will derive satisfaction from it even when youth is gone."

Karl Groos
The Play of Animals

“We play because we have an exuberance of spirits and energy, but we are also exuberant because we play.”

Kay Redfield Jamison

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

Plato

"I dislike work even when others do it."

Mark Twain

“Animals that play together tend to stay together.”

Marc Bekoff

"I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escaped and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox."

Oscar Wilde

"It doesn’t take a scientist to realize that a chimpanzee or a dog is an intelligent animal. Instead, it takes a bigoted human to suggest that it’s not.”

Richard Leakey

"Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn't taste good."

Lucia Capocchione, art therapist, author

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

George Bernard Shaw