Foundation

Famous quotes containing the word foundation:

“To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

“The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)