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  Quotations About / On: GOLF
     

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  Golf is a good walk spoiled.
 
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. Attributed, quoted in "Golf," Greatly Exaggerated, ed. Alex Ayres (1988).)
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  Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
 
(Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), U.S. Democratic politician. Quoted in Leon Harris, The Fine Art of Political Wit, ch. 10 (1964). Referring to President Eisenhower's passion for golf.)
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3   

  If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
 
(Paul Gallico (1897-1976), U.S. novelist. New York Times (March 6, 1977).)
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4   

  And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls."

 
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "Choruses from 'The Rock'....")
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  If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
 
(Jack Lemmon (b. 1925), U.S. actor. Sports Illustrated (New York, Dec. 9, 1985).)
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  A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.
 
(Frank Butler (1890-1967), British screenwriter, and Frank Cavett (1907-1973), U.S. screenwriter. Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), Going My Way, after turning down an invitation to go golfing because of the profanity heard there (1944).)
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7   

  emerald as heavy
as a golf course, ruby as dark
as an afterbirth,
diamond as white as sun
on the sea ...

 
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Fury of Jewels and Coal.")
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  Of our major professional sports, golf alone retains the lyrical innocence with which it began centuries ago among Scottish herdsmen slapping the gutta-percha ball around the bonny banks. Golf alone, despite huge purses, has remained immune to the violence and vulgarity that have turned other sports into spectacles of sanctioned mayhem. The game, as Andrew Carnegie believed, is an "indispensable adjunct of high civilization." No other group of professionals is self-ruled by an honor code in which players call penalties on themselves. Golf etiquette prevails. Can football etiquette or hockey etiquette be imagined? Golf has no Charles Barkley, who has spit at fans. It has no John McEnroe, the obscenity-shouter, nor does it have enforcers, late-hitters, or self-absorbed clods who moan that they aren't paid enough.
 
(Colman McCarthy, U.S. journalist. "Gentlemen and Louts," The Washington Post (June 19, 1993).)
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  My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
 
(Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author. Letter, May 15, 1925. Selected Letters, ed. Carlos Baker (1981).)
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  Did I make you go insane?
Did I turn up your earphone and let a siren drive through?
Did I open the door for the mustached psychiatrist
who dragged you out like a golf cart?
Did I make you go insane?

 
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Anna Who Was Mad.")
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