Golf Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Golf Imagine Impossible
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth. Lucien… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
“He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire. — Chi Chi Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I don't think you play golf just to make money. I think you're just good at it, and that ends up being a profession… — Patrick Cantlay Copy Share Image
A good golfers métier is his or her golfing skill. A great golfers métier is his or her golfing skill, coupled with the mastery… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
It's a great feeling to know that I've played the best golf throughout the season of any of the guys for the second time… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
Golf is such a big commitment, and so is acting. Sometimes you have to give up something to do something else, although, when I'm… — Kathryn Newton Copy Share Image
I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity. — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
“Someone’s coming.” Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see the golf… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary… — Fred Couples Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that everyone in golf is just nice. You learn a lot about people playing golf: their integrity, how they play… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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