People From Baltimore

"Most women would like to dress imaginatively, but they glare at any woman who does."

"It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily."

"There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure."

"Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives."

"A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women."

"All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men."

"Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them."

"Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible they are right."

"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."

"Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man."

"Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls."

"Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike."

"Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere."

"Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets."

"With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins."

"He's in for trouble—the man whose wife is detested by all women and desired by all men."

"Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun."

"All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men."

"A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine."

"Any woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway."

"Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't."

"Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty."

"Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable."

"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

"Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes that would make all the difference."

"Don't be yourself-be someone a little nicer."

"Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head."

"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."

"We are all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy."

"Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality."

"You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages."

"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."

"Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else."

"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show."

"We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that."

"The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all."

"We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap."

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

"Despair is anger with no place to go."

"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent."

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."

"Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why."

"What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven."

"If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate."

"He always threw to the right base. We say that about most outfielders. Ruth always threw to the right base. DiMaggio always threw to the right base. The others maybe did, maybe didn’t. Mays most of the time threw to the right base, but Ruth always threw to the right base."

"So we went to see Babe Ruth pitch the last game of the 1933 season. The Senators had already clinched the pennant, the Giants had clinched in the other league, so this was just a nothing game. I thought maybe he’d make an appearance, pitch an inning or two or three – he pitched a complete game. He hadn’t pitched a complete game since 1930, and then he pitched a complete game. And before that he had pitched two four-inning stints for the Yankees, so he pitched four times. So he pitched a complete game, he gave up twelve hits, it was not a great pitching performance, but the Yankees won, 7-5. He didn’t strike out a soul. Years later I saw him on Broadway. I went up to him and said, “Hi, Babe.” He said, “Hi, kid.” That’s the way he treated everybody. I said, “You know, I saw you pitch your last game at the Stadium.” This was maybe eight years later or so. I said, “How come you didn’t strike out anybody?” And he said, “I wanted those other eight guys to earn their money!” And that was Ruth."

"Well, Al Simmons is a great hitter. No doubt of that. I think he's a better hitter than young Jimmy Foxx right now; at least I consider him more dangerous up there. But the fellow I'd name for the best hitter in the league is Babe Ruth. The big fellow looked like a million dollars against us in Detroit. Say, he nearly killed Marty McManus with a line drive down the third base line. And a left-hand hitter, too. There never was anybody could hit with him. He tops 'em all."

"Yes, and the greatest I've ever heard of. Far and away. These other home run hitters are neck and neck. When the Babe was doing his stuff, he was miles ahead of his field. A great fielder and thrower, too. A good base runner. Made the right play instinctively. And don't forget he was one of the great left-hand pitchers of his time. When was there ever another ball player like that?"

"He wasn’t a baseball player. He was a worldwide celebrity, an international star, the likes of which baseball has never seen since."