Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

When it was time for a player to go, he went.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write.

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Man is not meant to live alone.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

The thicker you paint, the more it flows.

I look forward to the challenges.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.