Famous quotes containing the word foundation:
“The foundation of empire is art & science. Remove them or degrade them, & the empire is no more. Empire follows art & not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
—William Blake (17571827)
“I desire to speak somewhere without bounds; like a man in a waking moment, to men in their waking moments; for I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabricand pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
—GGeorge Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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