Philosophy Quotes

"Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-bye is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future."

- John Steinbeck

"It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embryo state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?"

- Benjamin Franklin

"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."

- William Penn

"The morals rise at sunrise. When the light comes, we are already there."

- Alan Maiccon

"Golf is a game of precision, not power."

- Jack Nicklaus

"Golf is not a game of perfect. It's a game of managing imperfection."

- Dr. Bob Rotella

"The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary."

- Alfred Kreymborg

"Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end."

- Remy de Gourmont

"If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour."

- Victoria Erickson

"I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."

- Oscar Wilde

"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated."

- Arnold Palmer

"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

- Mark Twain

"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."

- Bobby Jones

"Golf is a game of managing imperfection."

- Dr. Bob Rotella

"rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

- William Shakespeare

"Autumn is the hush before winter."

- French Proverb

"Golf is a sport that demands perfection, but accepts excellence."

- Ken Venturi

"Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 50 years and I still haven’t the slightest idea of how to play."

- Gary Player

"Golf is the closest thing to the game we call life."

- Jack Nicklaus

"Golf is the only game where the ball doesn't move, and you do."

- Frank Beard

"Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject."

- David Forgan

"Golf is not just exercise; it's an adventure, a romance...a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined."

- Harold Segall

"The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things."

- John Updike

"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."

- Bobby Jones

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

- Winston Churchill

"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."

- William Wordsworth

"Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a grateful result."

- Tommy Armour

"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented."

- Arnold Palmer

"In golf as in life, it is the follow-through that makes the difference."