Batter Reaches Base

Famous quotes containing the words reaches and/or base:

“We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)