Famous quotes containing the words joint, base and/or garrison:
“What’s a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.”
—Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
“Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.”
—William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)