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"Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base." »Frederick Wilcox
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"Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain; By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit." »Butler
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"Solo homers usually come with no one on base." »Ralph Kiner
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"Emotion is a rotten base for politics." »Dick Francis
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"I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches." »Gilda Radner
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"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." »Gilda Radner
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"Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life." »Julia T. Alvarez
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"Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." »William Blake
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"Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball." »Jerry Coleman
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"Houston, uh, Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed." »Neil Armstrong
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"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." »Barry Switzer
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"When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander." »Sa?di
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius
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"That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple." »Jerry Coleman
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"Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction." »The Hitopadesa
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"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
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"Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." »Juvenal
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"baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game." »Rod Kanehl
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"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
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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers." »Scott Adams
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"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor." »Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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"There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base." »Jerry Coleman
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"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
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"The good extend their loving care To men, however mean or vile; E?en base Ch?nd?las?* dwellings share Th? impartial sunbeam?s silver smile." »The Hitopadesa
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"In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love." »John Steinbeck
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"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
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"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a 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
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"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
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"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, deplorable 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
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