Base

Famous quotes containing the word base:

“Time, force, and death
Do to this body what extremes you can,
But the strong base and building of my love
Is as the very centre of the earth,
Drawing all things to it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“For those who are base in judgement do not know the good they hold in their hands until they cast it off.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)