Little League
A man approached a little league baseball game one afternoon. He asked a boy in the dugout what the score was. The boy responded, “Eighteen to nothingwere behind.” “Boy,” said the spectator, “Ill bet youre discouraged.” “Why should I be discouraged?” replied the little boy. “We havent even gotten up to bat yet!”
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majestys horse to fly within the yearon the condition that if he didnt succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later, “the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.”
- Bernard M. Baruch