Quote by John Updike
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken. – Raymond Floyd

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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses. – Adlai Stevenson

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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. – Will Rogers

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A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. – Author unknown, variation of a famous non-golf quotation by Samuel Johnson “It i

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