It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

Topics: Golf Quotes

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one...

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one...

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply...

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply...

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon...

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon...

No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by...

No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by...

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out...

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out...

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full...

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full...

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she...

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she...

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist,...

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist,...

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish...

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish...

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents,...

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents,...

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by...

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by...

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war...

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war...

In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the...

In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the...

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without...

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without...