Famous quotes containing the words joint and/or base:
“What’s a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)