Base Period

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or period:

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

“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: “youth” is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)