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«Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
Funny,
Golf
| Keywords:
arrogance, deflated, deflates, deflating, exhibition, overweening, soured, whiff, whiffing, whiffs
«Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
allow, certainly, cloak, cloaked, cloaking, cloaks, each day, fair, frighten, frighten away, future day, handicapped, handicapping, handicaps, hurdle, hurdles, may not, pains, pity, plans, poison, self-pity, sound, sour, soured, sourest, souring, sours, special, ugly, wear, wear away, whines
«?Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn?t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, ancient people, Apollo, Athena, belonging, brave, call back, chipped, chipping, chips, chip in, commercial, cream, creamed, creams, culture, experts, fall in, fall in love, free will, goddess, gods and goddesses, Greek, Greeks, Greek a, occurred, out to, potato, rush, rush out, sour, soured, sourest, souring, sours, sour cream, telling, The Cream
«A quarrel is like buttermilk, once it's out of the churn; the more you shake it, the more sour it grows»
«A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.»
«Music do I hear?Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,When time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
broke, ha-ha, Ha Ha Ha, kept, Music of, proportion, sour, soured, sourest, souring, sours
