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- "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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at 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…
- As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat…
- There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
- 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,…
- 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,…
- Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father,…
- There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
- Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All…
- A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of…
- Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,…
- I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four…
- As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in…
- No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only…
- Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one…
- the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments
- I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that…
- To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
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