Umpires Quotes

222 quotes by 195 authors

Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
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… — Marcus Aurelius
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. — Joseph Addison
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. — Brendan Behan
When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and… — Ritchie Blackmore
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. — Julian Bond
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book,… — Joseph Brodsky
Mars is there, waiting to be reached. — Buzz Aldrin
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. — Anton Chekhov
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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… — John Cleese
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie
I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that… — Chris Christie
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and… — Dot Richardson
The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?' — Rod Laver
The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order. — Neville Cardus
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get… — Katharine Whitehorn
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. — Leo Durocher

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