Occupation: Journalist Birth: November 20, 1908 Death: March 30, 2004
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful will….
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battlegr….
They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why..
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decaden….
I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in n….
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is the….
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: nam….
It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and aft….
Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated ….
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly tha….
If computers take over, it will serve us right..
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by oth….
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions th….
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible..
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it..
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - televisio….
To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something abo….
The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my du….
It's an acting job - acting natural..
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence..