| To the mind that is still, the universe surrenders Lao Tzu |
| Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. William Wordsworth |
| I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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| There is only one duty, one safe course, and that is to try to be right Winston Churchill |
| If you have an important point to make, don't try to be clever or subtle. Use the piledriver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill |
| When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half Gracie Allen |
| Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go and cry in a corner for hours Eric Idle |
| No man's error becomes his law; nor obliges him to persist in it Thomas Hobbes |
| The last page was getting a little on the long side, so I added another one. And no prizes for guessing why the first one on this page is actually my second favourite 'quote'. |
| The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree and still hold hands Alex Penney |
| Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations; there will be no further rules Nordstrom employees manual |
| The time is always right to do what is right Martin Luther King Jr. |
| It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success David Feherty (golfer) |
| Love is the only force capable of turning an enemy into a friend Martin Luther King Jr. |
| When a man opens a car door for his wife it's either a new car or a new wife Prince Phillip |
| Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others Groucho Marx |
| Beer is living proof that God exists and wants us to be happy Homer Simpson - no, not really, it was actually Benjamin Franklin |
| When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in a microwave is an act of hate toward your child World renowned chef Raymond Blanc |
| It's okay for him to ponce about spending hours in the kitchen but I bet he doesn't have to juggle picking up the kids and running a household A Mother responding to the above |
| If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect materials, don't assign people tasks, rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea Antoine de Saint Exupery |
| And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them Oscar Wilde |
| I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability Oscr Wilde |
| Do you think democracy will come to Iraq on a B52, or on the back of a tank? Amr Moussa Sec Gen Arab League |
| Resentment is like taking poison and then waiting for the other person to die Malachy McCourt |
| In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer Mark Twian |
| There are times when one would like to hang the entire human race, and finish the farce Mark Twain |
| They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken Raymond Floyd |
| Computers are useless - they can only give you answers Pablo Picasso |
| I am not an Athenian, or a Greek, but a citizen of the world Socrates - 5th Century BC |
| An unjust peace is better than a just war Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1st century BC |
| You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time Albert Einstein |
| Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed Dwight D Eisenhower |
| Only the dead have seen the end of the war Plato - 4th century BC |
| It is forbidden to kill. Therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets Voltaire |
| If we don't end war, war will end us HG Wells |
| The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step Lao Tzu |
| Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime Lao Tzu |
| For every minute you remain angry you forfeit 60 seconds of peace of mind Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves Lao Tzu |
| From wonder into wonder existence opens Lao Tzu |
| Mastering others is strength Mastering youself is true power Lao Tzu |
| He who knows does not speak He who speaks does not know Lao Tzu |
| Music in the soul can be heard by the universe Lao Tzu |
| Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength Loving someone deeply gives you courage Lao Tzu |
| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a though without accepting it. Aristotle |
| Eduacation is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught Oscar Wilde |
| I have no right, by anything I do or say, to undermine a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| War is not an adventure. It is a disease; it is like typhus Antoinie de Saint-Exupery |
| Loving is not just looking at each other; it is looking in the same direction Antoine de Saint_Exupery |
| Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golfers become is proven by their frequent inability to count beyond five John Updike |
| I love mankind: it's peolpe I can't stand Charles Shultz |
| If it's the Psychic Network, why does it need a phone number? Robin Williams |
| Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic W.H. Auden |
| When I'm on a golf course and it starts to rain and lightning, I hold up my one iron because I know even God can't hit a one iron. Lee Trevino |
| I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible Lee Trevino |
| I'm not sayin my game went bad, but if I'd grown tomatoes they'd have come up sliced Lee Trevino |
| Is my friend in the bunker, or is the bastard on the green?. Anon |
| It is nothing new or original to say golf is played one stroke at a time but it took me many years to realise it Bobby Jones |
| Countries are like people; by their very existence they exalt or deflate the opinions one would like to have of oneself. When I return from Finland, I feel younger and livlier; I make great plans, I like many things in the world, and what is more, I like myself a little better. Georges Duhamel, from Chant du Nord - 1929 |