Famous quotes containing the words closed and/or ball:
“No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“‘Throw down the ball, ye Jew’s daughter,
Throw down the ball to me!’
‘Never a bit,’ says the Jew’s daughter,
‘Till up to me come ye.’”
—Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln (l. 13–16)