Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.

No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

When your heart feels strangely warm, you’ve found your love

Somebody who should have been born is gone.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.