Men Quote by P. G. Wodehouse

“Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.”

P. G. Wodehouse

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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, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

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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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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To…

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