“Badness is only spoiled goodness.”
Clive Staples Lewis book Mere Christianity
Book II, Chapter 2, "The Invasion"
Mere Christianity (1952)
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
"Twain probably never uttered [these] words," according to R. Kent Rasmussen, editor of The Quotable Mark Twain (1998). <br class="br">"To play golf is to spoil an otherwise enjoyable walk" is found in H.S. Scrivener, "Memories of Men and Meetings" https://books.google.com/books?id=cYgCAAAAYAAJ&q=dicta#v=snippet&q=dicta&f=false, in Arthur Wallis Myers (ed.) Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad New York:Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903, p. 47. Scrivener attributes the aphorism to "my good friends the Allens". Reference from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/28/golf-good-walk. <br class="br">Misattributed
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“That question is too good to spoil with an answer.”
Harry Mulisch book The Discovery of Heaven
Source: The Discovery of Heaven
Harper Lee (1926–2016) American author
On why she has done her best creative thinking while playing golf, as quoted in Time (12 May 1980)
“[Golf/Goff] shots, nothing but [golf/goff] shots.”
Dan Patrick (1956) American sportscaster
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William H. Rehnquist (1924–2005) Chief Justice of the United States
On writing. <br class="br"> Booknotes http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1107 television interview (July 5, 1992)
“The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water.”
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist
Abraham Hayward, writing in the Edinburgh Review in 1848.
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“[playing golf with his friends]”
Bill Engvall (1957) American comedian and actor
Here's Your Sign (1996)
Tiger Woods (1975) American professional golfer
Though Woods might have used this phrase, it is one dating at least to the early 20th century; the earliest published use thus far located is in "Mr. Lyncargo's Professional, by Frank Savile, in The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1906), p. 498, where a character declares : "Life isn't all golf. There are other duties, sometimes."
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John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Essay The Bliss of Golf (1982), reprinted in Golf Dreams (1996)