Fixed Base

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or base:

    “The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan and the whole fixed upon stilts.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “Report of fashions in proud Italy,
    Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation
    Limps after in base imitation.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)