Yardage Town Quotes & Sayings

Has always seemed to me that without the proper response to failure, we don't grow, we only age. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

True men ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits. — Zhuangzi

Kings, ministers, aristocrats, the rich in general, kept the people in poverty and subjection; they kept them as they kept dogs, to fight and hunt for their service. — Joseph Conrad

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and ... pass the gravy. — Iris Murdoch

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it. — Terence McKenna