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P.G. Wodehouse has 280 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
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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…
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the…
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Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put…
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The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
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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…
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Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of…
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce…
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Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive…
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Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.
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Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around…
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Flowers are happy things.
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There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…
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A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only…
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The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective,…
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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
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The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
— Nicholas Meyer
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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes…
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