World Match Play

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

    “We have given the world our passion,
    We have naught for death but toys.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all,
    Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call . . .
    And know the explanation I must pass is this
    MYou cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

    “Teach a child to play solitaire, and she’ll be able to entertain herself when there’s no one around. Teach her tennis, and she’ll know what to do when she’s on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.”
    —Joyce Maynard (20th century)