Famous quotes containing the words base, form and/or ends:
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Since you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure -the likeness of male or female...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 4:15,16.
“bars of that strange speech
In which each sound sets out to seek each other,
Murders its own father, marries its own mother,
And ends as one grand transcendental vowel.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)