Base Cost

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or cost:

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

“History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the the movements of the world gave a chance for it.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)