If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Golf is played with the arms.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Those who go along get along.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

The greens are harder than a whore's heart.

Of the mental hazards being scared is the worst. When you get scared you get tense.

To be consistently effective you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference its detachment.

Over the years Ive studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.