"Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With……" — Richard Armour
"Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion."
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34 Quotes by Richard Armour
Richard Armour has 34 quotes on this site.
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
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Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
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G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.
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This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on…
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"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest…
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Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
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Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
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More Adroit Quotes
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be…
— Martin Luther
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A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such…
— Chuck Klosterman
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To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be…
— Aleister Crowley
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Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with…
— Marquis de Sade
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