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Men Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
- 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…
- 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…
- Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone…
- 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…
- If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.
- ...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…
- Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
- 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.
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