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Man Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred…
- ...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the…
- His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
- I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a…
- Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the…
- Now, I am a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their shoes, the smell of…
- Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
- Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life…
- 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,…
- To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
- A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own,…
- A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
- At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky,…
- There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle