Casey Stengel Quotes

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

I have done nothing wrong.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

Blame is for God and small children.

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Age is not our fault.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.