If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence. . . eventually, things can go really, really wrong.
We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick. '
Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.
We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.
It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have the good effect at least. It will inspire us with many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies and vices. . . But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe.
I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.