Famous quotes containing the words base, form and/or ends:
“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in womens lives. You never saw men milling around in mens departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877?)
“Although there are not real winners or losers, in games of pretending children soon learn that the game ends when mutuality ends.”
—Joanne E. Oppenheim (20th century)