Base Stealing

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or stealing:

“What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o’er his base into the sea,
And there assume some other horrible form
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,
And draw you into madness?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)