Bishops Quote by P. G. Wodehouse

“Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.”

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If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

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He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable,…

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I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric…

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“the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had”

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Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

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So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

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Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching…

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Golf is the Great Mystery.

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Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times…

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“He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say 'when'!”

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Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

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My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my…

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And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

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I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of…

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

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We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots…

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Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

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Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the…

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The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

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Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

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Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to…

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