"I hasten to say to snobs from the……" — 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 greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better."
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Alistair Cooke
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55 Quotes by Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke has 55 quotes on this site.
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much…
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and…
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human…
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I…
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still…
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for…
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in…
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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More Balm Quotes
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
— Jane Austen
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind…
— Nick Cave
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Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
— Ricky Skaggs
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's…
— Philip Sidney
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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of…
— Leigh Hunt
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
— Clarence Darrow
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come…
— Robert Gilfillan
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When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy…
— Jesse Dylan
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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
— John Vianney
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