During the 1980s, for every $100 added to the value of the global economy, around $2.20 found its way to those living below the World Bank's absolute poverty line. During the 1990s, that share shrank to just 60 cents.

Andrew Simms, ::: Do Good Lives Have to Cost The Earth

Richard Adams ::: Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

If you watch a game , its fun. If you play it, its recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Bob Hope

"The hardest shot is a mashie at ninety yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces onto the green and the rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have only made it once"             

Zeppo Marx

"He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes at its maximum only to the man who has given up golf"  

P.G.Wodehouse

 "Modern convenience is not creative freedom, it is economic slavery"    

John Ruskin  :::  The Nature of Gothic 1853

"Il faut cultiver notre jardin." ~

Voltaire  Candide

Karl Marx :::  Communist Manifesto 1848

"Se e difficile fare qualcosa non vale la pena  farla" 

Italian proverb

"Accepit fabula prisca fidem"

Seneca  :::   The Roman Games

"In England you have the wealth, the mineral coal and the machines, here we have the sun" ~ the padrone   

D H Lawrence :::  Twilight in Italy

Still, thou art blest, compar'd wi' me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e'e,
On prospects drear!
An' forward, tho' I canna see,
I guess ...  an' fear!

 Robert Burns  :::  To a Mouse

"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura"  ~  

Dante Alighieri :::: The Divine Comedy

"Du mußt dein Leben ändern." 

Johann Winckelmann  :::  Geschichte der kunst des Altertums

Mr Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a small clock as to sic. This instrument being several years older than Oak's grandfather, had the peculiarity of going either too fast or not at all. The smaller of its hands, too, occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.

Thomas Hardy ::: Far from the Madding Crowd

"on Italian trains every window bears a label telling you in three languages not to lean out of the window.

The labels in French and German instruct you not to lean out of the window,

 but in Italian they merely suggest that it might not be a good idea"  

~ Bill Bryson  :::  "Neither here nor there"

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce"

Karl Marx

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."

President Merkin Muffley,  :::  Dr Strangelove 

"Do, or Do not, there is no try" ~

Yoda, :::  The Empire strikes back

when the roll call was taken no more than 150 officers and men answered, total losses were assessed at 394. With no preparatory training, ignorant of the ground and without maps, with defective rifles (that wouldn't fire their magazines and had to be loaded with single rounds) and without machine guns, the London Scottish had met the enemy in overwhelming numbers and denied them the road to Ypres. (the first territorial unit to defeat a regular army unit in open battle, Messines October 31st 1914)

(The London Scottish in the Great War)