Famous quotes containing the words base and/or running:
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)