He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg."

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

"If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it by a short head."

"While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled."

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.