Fixed Base

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or base:

“The sky is silent too,
Hard as granite and as fixed as fate.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)