Base Twelve

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or twelve:

“Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun,
That will not be deep searched with saucy looks;
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others’ books.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)