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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as…
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series…
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit…
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you…
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or…
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people…
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded…
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes…
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Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.
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Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that…
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Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…
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I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I…
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the…
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Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for…
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Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive
— Les Paul
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he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing
— Barney Kessel
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit…
— John Milton
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