Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
Golf is the Great Mystery.
New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.
I never was interested in politics. I’m quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I’m about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you’re going to die in about five minutes.
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else’s cash.
Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.
A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day’s play through the long evening.
The only way of really finding out a man’s true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.
He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem – slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.
I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?
To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.