Stephen Potter
Stephen Potter
Stephen Meredith Potterwas a British author best known for his mocking self-help books and their film and television derivatives...
ask carpet circular friend means patterns says shoes
If your friend says of some picture, "Yes, but what does it mean?" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes
ask carpet circular friend means patterns says shoes
If your friend says of some picture, ""Yes, but what does it mean?"" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes
art games practice theory winning
The theory and practice of gamesmanship orThe art of winning games without actually cheating.
slight
Yes, but not in the South', with slight adjustments, will do for any arguments about any place, if not about any person.
crowd looking therapy
I'm looking for the therapy crowd and the low-impact aerobics crowd. It's an alternative to a gym. There's no membership.
gone however man
How to be one up - how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.
bouquet general good rule state vice
A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.
player games names
In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.
gains advantage
Each of us can, by ployorgambit, most naturally gain the advantage.
golf games caddies
Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.
perfection withdrawal hints
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.
people
Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.
women hands voice
Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.
morning golf boys
Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him.