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  • It ain't over 'til it's over.

    -Yogi Lawrence Peter Berra
    Attributed.

  • The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it.

    - Robert Lee Frost
    Recalled on his death, 29  Jan1963.

  • Heavenly weather. If life was always like that.Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades.Over after over. Out. They can't play it here. Still,Captain Buller broke a window in Kildare Street Club with a slog to square leg.

    -James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
      Ulysses. Legend has it that W G Grace performed the feat of breaking the Kildare Street Club window while playing at the distant College Park in the1870s.

  • Over my dead body.

    - George S(imon) Kaufman
    Suggestion for his own epitaph.  Attributed.

  • Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here.

    -Tommy Trinder
    Of US troops stationed in Britain duringWorldWar II.This phrase is associated withTrinder, but was probably not his invention.

  • There are people on the pitch†they think it's all over†it is now!

    - Lewis Wolpert
      Radio commentary on the last goal of theWorld Cup final, in which England beatWest Germany atWembley.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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