Famous quotes containing the words base, ball and/or club:
“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Throw down the ball, ye Jews daughter,
Throw down the ball to me!
Never a bit, says the Jews daughter,
Till up to me come ye.”
—Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln (l. 1316)
“Mi advise tu them who are about tu begin, in arnest, the jurney ov life, is tu take their harte in one hand and a club in the other.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (18181885)
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