Basis

Famous quotes containing the word basis:

“Association with women is the basis of good manners.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)