Quotes by Robert Browning
It gets down to core values, how you can live and keep things straight and maintain an even keel. It helps to listen to people who share how they've done it. It's an everlasting human story.
—E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,...
He's Judas to a tittle, that man is!
Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?
There's a new tribunal now Higher than God's—the educated man's!
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
Truth never hurts the teller.
The moth's kiss, first! / Kiss me as if you made believe / You were not sure, this eve, / How my face, your flower, had pursed / Its petals up.
we two With life forever old yet new, Changed not in kind but in degree, The instant made eternity—
God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear, to give sign, we and they are His children, one family here.
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "heart" or intuition, another.
There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails:
When a man's fight begins within himself, he is worth something
the whole seems to fall into a shape As if I saw alike my work and self...
This may be a blessing for some courses, ... The attrition of the facilities hopefully will match the attrition of the population. The golfers that played at City Park or Eastover will want to play golf. So they will have to go to other facilities.
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph
Your business is not to catch men with show, With homage to the perishable clay,...
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
O lover of my life, O soldier-saint.
We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed...
To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
The economic impact is in the millions of dollars, ... And those are dollars you can't recoup. For every day a facility is closed, the golf pro can't make up those rounds. We won't know the full effect for two to three years. My sense is that some courses won't survive down the road.
So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, / Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!
