Base Powders

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or powders:

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

“Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty’s orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

Ask me no more whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day;
For in pure love heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)