--- title: "3 Andrew Quotes By Alistair Cooke" description: "3 Andrew quotes by Alistair Cooke. Plus more from Alistair Cooke and more Andrew sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/alistair-cooke-9876_ancient_the-emblem-on-the-necktie-reserved-for-t_184113.jpg" --- > [The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/the-emblem-on-the-necktie-reserved-for-the-members-of-the-royal-and/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/alistair-cooke-9876_ancient_the-emblem-on-the-necktie-reserved-for-t_184113.jpg) > [ When that happens \[the demise of golf\], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/when-that-happens-the-demise-of-golf-old-men-will-furtively-beckon-to/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d2/alistair-cooke-9876_age_when-that-happens-the-demise-of-golf-old_1053238.jpg) > [Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/sir-guy-campbell-s-classic-account-of-the-formation-of-the-links/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/433/alistair-cooke-9876_accounts_sir-guy-campbell-s-classic-account-of-th_3052377.jpg) ## Other authors on Andrew ## More by Alistair Cooke > [It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/it-has-always-been-cited-as-an-irrepressible-symptom-of-america-s/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/no-myth-dies-harder-and-none-is-more-regularly-debunked-by-the-facts/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/the-emblem-on-the-necktie-reserved-for-the-members-of-the-royal-and/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [If computers take over, it will serve us right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/if-computers-take-over-it-will-serve-us-right/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [ \[In 1889\] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/in-1889-the-last-big-tract-of-indian-land-was-declared-open-for/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/every-sport-pretends-to-be-literature/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/to-watch-an-american-on-a-beach-or-crowding-into-a-subway-or-buying-a/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/to-the-goggling-unbeliever-texans-say-as-people-always-say-about/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/i-talk-to-my-typewriter-and-that-is-what-i-ve-been-working-on-for-40/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/i-hasten-to-say-to-snobs-from-the-surrey-pine-and-sand-country-that/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/a-professional-is-a-person-who-can-do-his-best-at-a-time-when-he/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/liberty-is-the-luxury-of-self-discipline-that-those-nations/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/the-best-thing-about-eisenhower-s-presidency-was-his-jeffersonian/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/there-is-even-as-with-no-other-game-a-fascinating-detective/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) > [It's an acting job - acting natural.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/it-s-an-acting-job-acting-natural/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/andrew/alistair-cooke/#itemlist", "name": "3 Andrew Quotes By Alistair Cooke", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alistair Cooke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/the-emblem-on-the-necktie-reserved-for-the-members-of-the-royal-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/alistair-cooke-9876_ancient_the-emblem-on-the-necktie-reserved-for-t_184113.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/alistair-cooke-9876_ancient_the-emblem-on-the-necktie-reserved-for-t_184113.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/alistair-cooke-9876_ancient_the-emblem-on-the-necktie-reserved-for-t_184113.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The…” — Alistair Cooke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. 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