I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Flowers are happy things.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.