"If I had my way, any man..." - Quote by H L Mencken
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
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“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.”
“The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.”
“No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.”
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“When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.”
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
“Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.”
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“But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.”
“I didn't know much about golf growing up.”
“Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.”