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)
“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)