“I have always thought that if the game was worth playing at all, it was worth making some effort to play it correctly.”

Bobby Jones

“this world does not explain itself.”

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy

“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”

John Wanamaker

“Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the principle is exactly the same…. The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority.”

James Fitzjames Stephen LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY

“I don’t know what the people think, I only know what they should think.”

Teddy Roosevelt

“We misuse the word sex, saying we ‘have sex’ when we mean coupling, quite as if everybody did not have sex day and night by being either male or female. Our confusion is part of the excess of ideas typical of old civilizations…”

Jacques Barzun From Dawn To Decadence

“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.”

Lao Tzu

“I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. There is a sanctity in a good man's house which cannot be renewed in every tenement that rises on its ruins…”

John Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture