In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.


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LEO XIII
If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
LEO ROSTEN
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very ...
LEO TOLSTOY
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY
I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fif...
LEO ROSTEN
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
LEO TOLSTOY
All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
LEO TOLSTOY
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this en...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
LEO AIKMAN
A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
LEO BAECK
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid...
LEO TOLSTOY
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest co...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
We all need each other.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind o...
LEO BURNETT
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good on...
LEO BURNETT
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
LEO BURNETT
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
LEO AIKMAN
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because i...
LEO STEIN
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business ...
LEO BURNETT
Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in...
LEO TOLSTOY
In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith pr...
LEO BOOTH
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest c...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mu...
LEO BURNETT
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love mea...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because ...
LEO STEIN