World Match Play

Famous quotes containing the words world, match and/or play:

“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“They who have considered our nature, affirm that shame and disgrace are two of the most insupportable evils of human life: the courage and spirits of many have master’d other misfortunes and borne themselves up against them; but the wisest and best of souls have not been a match for these.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“Hail, comly and clene,
Hail, yong child!
Hail, maker, as I meene,
Of a maden so milde!”
—Unknown. The Second Shepherd’s Play (l. 6–8)