"My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me."

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Source : A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus

A. P. Herbert

#Golf Quotes #Men Quotes #Blue Quotes

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”
“The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II, 25-plus years after the end of the Cold War. Like any president, he didn't come into office with a blank slate - he entered with an enormous inheritance of relationships with institutions, policies and the like. And in my view he is much too quick to pull the U.S. out of various institutions and various agreements, and he's been much too quick to question the value of allies and alliances.”
“We learn best in moments of enjoyment”
“For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.”
“You, boy, who owe everything to a name”
“I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.”

Source : "Brian McDermott: Credit? Just give it away, I'm genuinely not bothered". Interview with Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.
“It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?”
“Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.”

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