Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a knee joint.
We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.
I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.
Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.
The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask a little less than you hope to get. I think you should ask more.
