Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or base:
“Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they dont notice whether its passing quickly or slowly.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“Thou treacherous, base deserter of my flame,
False to my passion, fatal to my fame,
Through what mistaken magic dost thou prove
So true to lewdness, so untrue to love?”
—John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester (16471680)
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