"Like so many substantial citizens of America, he……" — P.G. Wodehouse
"Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag."
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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 Alps Quotes
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...
— Alexander Pope
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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has…
— Grete Waitz
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Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘That’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’
— Elton John
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I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing…
— Mavis Gallant
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Wig Out At Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can…
— Stephen Malkmus
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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps…
— Benito Mussolini
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And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place…
— Patricia Hewitt
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Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from…
— Unknown Author
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Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward…
— Edward Burnett Tylor
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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which…
— Mark Twain
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