Oil/basis

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or basis:

    “I bade, because the wick and oil are spent
    And frozen are the channels of the blood....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)