Base

Famous quotes containing the word base:

“The base emotions Plato banned
have left a radio-active and not radiant land.”
—Libby Houston (b. 1941)

“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.)

“When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)