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Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Sports

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Michel de Montaigne
Sports, Cat, Play
"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Michel de Montaigne
Sports, Medicine, Rocks

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Michel de Montaigne
Love, Sports, Nurse
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne
Sports, Wisdom, Children
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 23, 1595.

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

Michel de Montaigne
Sports, Running, Children
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.416, 谷月社

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