Short Repeat Sequences

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or repeat:

    “How, in one short century, has this ersatz sport so strangled the consciousness of the country in the grip of its flabby tentacles that the mention of women’s baseball gets no reaction other than blank amazement?”
    —Darlene Mehrer, As quoted in Women in Baseball. Ch. 6, by Gai Ingham Berlage (1994)

    “Careless credulity makes them the prey of those they trusted; and then they repeat their
    mistake by suspecting all alike.”
    —Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)