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Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and… — David Lloyd George
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones. — Ben Hogan
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets… — William James
Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only… — John Wooden
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you… — Pete Carril
The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers… — Anne Catherine Emmerich
When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at that time, I… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not… — Mother Teresa
All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds… — Mike Royko
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed. — Henry David Thoreau
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity… — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours. — Mary Howitt
As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings,… — Nan Fairbrother
To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing — Lilian Whiting
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I… — Claude Monet
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. — Unknown Author
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money. — Joe E. Lewis
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a… — Bernard de Mandeville
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. — William Shenstone
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft… — Susan Hill

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