The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.

I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.