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Golf Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
- Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
- "After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in…
- Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never…
- Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech.…
- The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
- 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 wouldn't have said…
- Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination.…
- Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than…
- Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It…
- There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
- He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
- The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the…
- A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.
- What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition…
- They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
- What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?
- 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 over your shots.…
- There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away…
- It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of…
- Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd…
- Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him,…
- The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
- To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
- Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
- Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
More Golf Quotes
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger. — Lance Armstrong
- Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. — Franklin P. Adams
- Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. — Dave Barry
- For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. — Dave Barry
- Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. — Jack Benny
- I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life. — Yogi Berra
- I didn't know much about golf growing up. — Yogi Berra
- You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football… — Jello Biafra
- Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop
- I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes… — Lewis Black
- If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and… — Lewis Black