Base Standard Incorporating

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or standard:

    “Then must you speak
    Of one the lov’d not wisely but too well;
    Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
    Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand,
    Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
    Richer than all his tribe;”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)