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Alistair Cooke has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 golf as…
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series…
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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 comedy, implicit…
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you…
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or…
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people…
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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 the eroded…
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican…
— Alistair Cooke
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Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
— Calvin Trillin
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According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but…
— Robert Klein
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Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show…
— J D Salinger
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Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much
— Galen Beckett
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I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand.…
— Joe Frazier
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Neckties strangle clear thinking.
— Lin Yutang
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Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.
— Harry Anderson
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We change ideas like neckties.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
— D. H. Lawrence
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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
— Lin Yutang
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