Famous quotes containing the words base, form and/or ends:
“The base emotions Plato banned
have left a radio-active and not radiant land.”
—Libby Houston (b. 1941)
“When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,—1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)