It’s almost as if he looked into this.
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
25JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“It ain’t bragging if you can do it.”
Dizzy Dean
24JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?”
Shoeless Joe Jackson
23JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.”
Ty Cobb
22JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.”
Ty Cobb
21JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.”
Babe Ruth
20JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.”
Babe Ruth
19JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
A little counter-programming to the World Cup. Baseball.
“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.”
Babe Ruth
18JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
“The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.”
Ayn Rand
17JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
“Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.”
Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy must have been old when he wrote this. He’s leaving out a very important ingredient.