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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#feel #quit #run #should #starts

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#believe #checks #ever #everything #forget

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#had #hit #home #home run #i

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#dollars #drinking #earlier #easier #fifty

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#beer #chewed #drink #early #first

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#could #i #just #singles #them

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#cemetery #either #i #penitentiary

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#being #conceded #creatures #earth #earthly

Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually with life nectar, the life nectar then being passed into the world, out of each beak, in the form of that bird's distinctive song, which was, in turn, an accident of beak shape, throat shape, breast configuration, brain chemistry: some birds blessed in voice, others cursed; some squeaking, others rapturous. ↗

— George Saunders

#birds #evolution #nature #beauty

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#cannot #cast #conscience #down #evil