"The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He……" — P.G. Wodehouse
"The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence."
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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 Chisel Quotes
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one of 53 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
— Samuel Butler
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A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a…
— Rudyard Kipling
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No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker…
— Terry Bradshaw
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The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the…
— Peter Kreeft
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Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been…
— Orison Swett Marden
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That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends…
— Marc Maron
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Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead…
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be…
— John Ruskin
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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
— William C. Bryant
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The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be…
— Emil Kraepelin
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The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just…
— Michelangelo
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