Batter Reaches Base

Famous quotes containing the words reaches and/or base:

    “I’m glad to find that you dislike Venice because I thought it detestable when we were there, both times—once it might be due to insanity but not twice, so I thought it must be my fault. I suppose the obscurer reaches might be beautiful.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)