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

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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke

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Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. – Alistair Cooke

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Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well. – Art Rosenbaum

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Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. – Rick Reilly, “Master Strokes,” Sports Illustrated

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My handicap? Woods and irons. – Chris Codiroli

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Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. – Princess Anne of Great Britain

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