Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society

It's summer and time for wandering...

Sameness of existence. Conformity is inevitable. So is search.

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.