Bottom

Famous quotes containing the word bottom:

    My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred,
    And I myself see not the bottom of it.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The very bottom and the soul of hope,
    The very list, the very utmost bound
    Of all our fortunes.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness—to bring him down to the miserable level of “good” men i.e., of stupid, cowardly and chronically unhappy men.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)