Quotes on Umpires

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.