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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
Richard Armour
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Richard Armour
Age: 82 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 15
Died: 1989
Died: February 28
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This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.
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Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
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Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking too many.
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G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.
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My day-old son is plenty scrawny, his mouth is wide with screams, or yawny His ears seem larger than he's needing, His nose is flat, his chin's receding. His skin is very, very red, He has no hair upon his head, And yet I'm proud as proud can be, To hear you say he looks like me.
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Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.
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Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
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When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
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If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.
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How I love to get a letter! I can think of nothing better Than perusing an epistolary item. But deep is my despondence, For I've found that correspondence Means that if you want to get 'em, You must write 'em!
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If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?
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In larger things we are convivial what causes trouble is the trivial.
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Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.
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Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.
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If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.
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I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.
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(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
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There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.
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Shake and shake the catsup bottle none will come and then a lot'll.
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