It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable,… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say 'when'!” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
