"He had the look of one who had……" — P.G. Wodehouse
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."
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279 Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
P.G. Wodehouse has 279 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely…
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Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous…
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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.…
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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…
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with…
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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,…
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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…
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Flowers are happy things.
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More Beetle Quotes
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one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin,…
— Will Carleton
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
— Ambrose Bierce
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God,…
— Primo Levi
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism…
— Richard Livingstone
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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon…
— Richard Louv
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I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle,…
— Stefan Sagmeister
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When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered…
— Albert Einstein
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I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was…
— Karl Pilkington
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In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a…
— E. O. Wilson
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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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