Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

“I don’t believe anybody knows the future, and anybody who claims to is a fraud.”

Alvin Toffler, author of 'Future Shock'

born 4 October 1928; died 27 June 2016

Orbituary in The Guardian here:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/03/alvin-toffler-obituary

 

[anat0l]

"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians."

- Pauline Hanson, Senator-elect 2016

 

[JohnK]

"Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go hell in such a way they ask for directions."

- Winston Churchill

 

[Major]

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus
Roman Philosopher

 

[drron]

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.

Sir David Frost.

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Henry Boyle.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

 

[JohnK]

"Golf is a game of luck, the more I practice, the luckier I get."

- Ben Hogan

The above quote is true but you seriously need to have some luck in golf. Fairway slopes right to left, ball in flight is moving right to left and hits the side of the green. You'd think the ball should feed down to the pin but the ball takes a "wicked" bounce back up the hill and into the bunker!

 

[Happy Dude]

"Golf is a game of luck, the more I practice, the luckier I get."

- Ben Hogan

I think that's a Jerry Barber quote JohnK, although it's commonly attributed to Gary Player too.

It is a ripper though, and as you point out a bit of "luck" or a rub of the green can you leave you mystified.....

 

[drron]

I think that's a Jerry Barber quote JohnK, although it's commonly attributed to Gary Player too.

It is a ripper though, and as you point out a bit of "luck" or a rub of the green can you leave you mystified.....

Gary Player wrote in his book that it was said by Jerry Barber hence some thinking it was Gary Player.
Off topic stay at the Sheraton Pretoria as an SPG plat and you get a Gary player shirt.As well as brekkie.

 

[Geegeela]

"Golf is a game of luck, the more I practice, the luckier I get."

- Ben Hogan

The above quote is true but you seriously need to have some luck in golf. Fairway slopes right to left, ball in flight is moving right to left and hits the side of the green. You'd think the ball should feed down to the pin but the ball takes a "wicked" bounce back up the hill and into the bunker!

Pablo Casals, generally regarded, as one of the greatest cello players of all time, was asked at the height of his career why he still practised eight hours a day?

His reply “I think I am getting better”.

 

[Happy Dude]

Gary Player wrote in his book that it was said by Jerry Barber hence some thinking it was Gary Player.
Off topic stay at the Sheraton Pretoria as an SPG plat and you get a Gary player shirt.As well as brekkie.

A black, long sleeved turtle neck? Why not? Anything to distract attention away from my knees.

It's a good read, his book, especially the bit about the cheating accusations. But I'm a Tom Watson fan....

Back on topic, "Because it's there" - George Mallory

 

[anat0l]

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

[Foreigner]

"As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I’ve found that to be absolutely axiomatic."

-- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

 

[JohnK]

"No news is good news"

- Anonymous

 

[JessicaTam]

"He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the world".

Gene Wilder's nephew explaining why the actor kept his illness a secret.

 

[Major]

"Be yourself.
Everyone else is already taken"

Oscar Wilde

 

[TheRealTMA]

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

 

[anat0l]

"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."

- Ernestine Ulmer (often misquoted as "Life is short... eat dessert first.")

 

[Buzzard]

Give life the hiding it deserves.

 

[Buzzard]

Comparison is the thief of joy.