Base Ball

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or ball:

    “What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
    Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
    That beetles o’er his base into the sea,
    And there assume some other horrible form
    Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,
    And draw you into madness?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “But the ball is lost and the mallet slipped long since from the hands
    Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)