Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
A. A. Gill
Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.
A. A. Milne
Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.
A. A. Milne
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
A. A. Milne
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
A. A. Milne
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer. . . the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
A. B. Simpson