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.)
“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.”
—Clifford Irving (b. 1930)
“Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)