| "Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base." »Frederick Wilcox |
| "Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence." »Elihu Burritt |
| "Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." »Anne Frank |
| "Solo homers usually come with no one on base." »Ralph Kiner |
| "I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." »Gilda Radner |
| "Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball." »Jerry Coleman |
| "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." »William Blake |
| "That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." »Barry Switzer |
| "The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius |
| "No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming." »Charles E. Wilson |
| "If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me.'" »Leo Durocher |
| "Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." »Juvenal |
| "Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game." »Rod Kanehl |
| "The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers." »Scott Adams |
| "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions." »Albert Einstein |
| "There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base." »Jerry Coleman |
| "You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill |
| "The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity." »Norman R. Augustine |
| "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." »Giordano Bruno |
| "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." »Dave Barry |
| "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." »Albert Einstein |
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
[