Quote by Alistair Cooke
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflat

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. – Alistair Cooke

Other quotes by Alistair Cooke
Other Quotes from
Golf
category

If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. – Horace G. Hutchinson (1859-1932)

Category:
Golf

Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, “Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel.” – Jeff Cesario

Category:
Golf

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. – G.K. Chesterton

Category:
Golf

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using “an outside agency” and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf. – Henry Longhurst

Category:
Golf

Random Quotes

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. – Maurice Sendak

Category:
Future

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. – Rutherford B. Hayes

Category:
Education

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with. – Evita Peron

Category:
Women

Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. – Not Your Average Dictionary

Category:
Children