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April 4, 2019

Baseball

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game! –Babe Ruth

No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference. – Tommy Lasorda

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. – Yogi Berra

The next time someone whines that baseball doesn’t have enough action, you can do two things: first, explain the planning, strategizing, calculating, and deception that place before every pitch. Then quote Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber:

“Baseball is dull only to dull minds. – Zack Hample

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. –Babe Ruth

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course. –Hank Aaron

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. –Babe Ruth

Playing baseball for pay – home run. Teaching kids to play the game – priceless. – Jack Perconte

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March 28, 2019

April Fools Day

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. –Mark Twain

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. – Max Eastman

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. – Clifton Paul Fadiman

None but a fool is always right. – Augustus William Hare

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. –William Shakespeare

Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. –Irish Proverb

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. –Chinese Proverb

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. – Jack Handey

If it thunders on All Fool’s Day, Expect good crops of corn and hay. – Unknown Author

Isn’t it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool’s Day and ends with cries of May Day! – Unknown Author

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March 21, 2019

Spring Blossom by blossom the spring begins. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade. – Charles Dickens

“Where flowers bloom so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” – Anne Bradstreet

“It is spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want–oh, you don’t know quite what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” –Mark Twain

“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” –Pablo Neruda

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. –Lewis Grizzard

Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’ –Robin Williams

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. – Doug Larson

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. – W. Earl Hall

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March 14, 2019

St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time- a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.. —Adrienne Cooke

You’re not in America now, you’re in Ireland. So have a drink and shut up. —Matthew Goode (Leap Year)

The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick. — Stephan Gwynn

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night. — Irish Blessing

Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck. —Anon

“That’s what the holidays are for—for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way?” — Lara Flynn Boyle

Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. — Shane Leslie

An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth. —Anon

What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck. —Anon

If you’re lucky enough to be Irish, you’re lucky enough! —Irish saying

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March 7, 2019

Daylight Savings Time

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome and enormously expensive light of candles if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing. —Benjamin Franklin

An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later. —Winston Churchill

Daylight time, a monstrosity in timekeeping. — Harry S. Truman

Daylight saving time: Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket. — Anonymous

I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year. —Victor Borge

Don’t forget it’s daylight saving time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It’s like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed. — David Letterman

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we abserve daylight savings time. — Dave Berry

What I love about Daylight Savings Time is that it’s always 5:00 somewhere an hour earlier now. — Anonymous

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February 28, 2019

Mardi Gras

Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans. —Mark Twain

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once. —Chris Rose

It’s a great party, and anyone who doesn’t enjoy Mardi Gras is not of this world. — Franklin Alvarado

New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture — even the local superstitions. It’s a sensory experience on all levels and there’s a story lurking around every corner. — Ruta Sepetys

There’s a thing I’ve dreamed of all my life, and I’ll be damned if it don’t look like it’s about to come true- to be King of the Zulu’s parade. After that, I’ll be ready to die. —Louis Armstrong

Mardi Gras is in our soul. — Kim Priez

Mardi Gras, baby. Mardi Gras. Time when all manner of weird shit cuts loose and parties down. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we’re down but not out. — Arthur Hardy

May your children never find out what you did for plastic beads. —Anon

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February 21, 2019

Wrestling

Win if you can, lose if you must, but ALWAYS cheat! -Jesse Ventura

No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired. -J. Robinson

Everything I do is to become better, the best ever and I’m not going to stop. -Dolph Ziggler

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing. -John Smith

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one. -William Baldwin

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and the same more humility training than wrestling. -James Leach

Never back down and never quit. -John Cena

There’s no drama like wrestling. -Kane

Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. -Latvian Proverb

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come. -Dan Gable

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination. -Tommy Lasorda

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February 14, 2019

Wind

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -Jimmy Dean

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it. -Winston Churchill

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward

And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. -Roy Bean

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. -Bruce Lee

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. -Joan Didion

The wind whispered secrets in its own incomprehensible language. -Tracy Rees

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel. -Charles Dickens

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. -C. S. Lewis

Wind is what happens when air falls in love with itself. -Barry Webster

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February 7, 2019

State of the Union

President Washington began this tradition in 1790 after reminding the Nation that the destiny of self-government and the ‘preservation of the sacred fire of liberty’ is ‘finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.’

For our friends in the press, who place a high premium on accuracy, let me say: I did not actually hear George Washington say that.”

– Ronald Reagan, Jan. 26, 1982

The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. … In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.”

– Abraham Lincoln, Dec. 1, 1862

“I would like to add a personal word with regard to an issue that has been of great concern to all Americans over the past year. I refer, of course, to the investigations of the so-called Watergate affair. As you know, I have provided to the Special Prosecutor voluntarily a great deal of material. I believe that I have provided all the material that he needs to conclude his investigations and to proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the innocent. I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough.”

– Richard Nixon, Jan. 30, 1974

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