Quotes To Go – Part One

In the absence of the Masters golf tournament this year Funky Folks this take may lift your sinking hopes.

I met a fellow in the school library. He tapped me on the shoulder and pointing to a book, this he told me…

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature”.

I turned to see who it might be but saw no one. It was the name on the book that piqued my interest It was none other than….

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse who is one of the best humorists known today to bibliophiles. He wrote more than ninety novels and some three hundred short stories over 73 years. Along with his iconic characters Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories are never complete without the disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

Mr.Wodehouse eased my tortuous path through the Sciences and Latin too. I am indebted to him.

As he walks down the fairway he would tell us…

What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That’s what I’m asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?

At this point Funky Folks my thought that anyone relating golf to pestilence should return to the club house and sit on the seat of repentance.

To find a man’s true character, play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself..

Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptuous.

Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies’ Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife’s loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humility, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day’s play through the long evening.

After all, golf is only a game”, said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don’t realize what they are saying.

Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

Funky Folks he beat Mark Twain whose long walk was spoiled in their thrilling playoff. I’m sure I saw P.G. walking away with the green jacket

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