"...there was practically one handwriting common to the……" — P.G. Wodehouse
"...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation."
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P.G. Wodehouse
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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 Brisk Quotes
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I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.
— Thomas Gray
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Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes,…
— Frederick Rolfe
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There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth…
— Lawrence Anthony
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Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
— A.S.A. Harrison
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I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that…
— Jeremy Brett
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Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an…
— Hans Kmoch
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
— Paracelsus
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The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways…
— Charles Dickens
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.... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works…
— David Livingstone
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