Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like after- shave lotion, adults who roller-skate, child...ren who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of our major professional sports, golf alone retains the lyrical innocence with which it began centuries ago among Scottish herdsm...en slapping the gutta-percha ball around the bonny banks. Golf alone, despite huge purses, has remained immune to the violence and vulgarity that have turned other sports into spectacles of sanctioned mayhem. The game, as Andrew Carnegie believed, is an "indispensable adjunct of high civilization." No other group of professionals is self-ruled by an honor code in which players call penalties on themselves. Golf etiquette prevails. Can football etiquette or hockey etiquette be imagined? Golf has no Charles Barkley, who has spit at fans. It has no John McEnroe, the obscenity-shouter, nor does it have enforcers, late-hitters, or self-absorbed clods who moan that they aren't paid enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better o...ne; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that belie...ves that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast... and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question... the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »