Balking our Wit
To sound or circumvent --
Hate cannot harm
A Foe so reticent --
Neither Decree prohibit him --
Lawful as Equilibrium.
Quotes about balking (4 Quotes)
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laugther.
We really need to grasp the concept that extra bases matter, you can't be balking guys over and wild-pitching guys over. I don't care if you're playing Miami of Florida or the New York Yankees you want to make it difficult (to score runs).
I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music of the critics who repeated for the hundredth time, 'Beethoven is a great composer,' while balking violently at new works of the managers who arranged long tours for artists playing the same hackneyed programs fifty times over.