Oil/basis

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or basis:

    “Eat what you can get.
    Where’s the salt
    in this dump of a village?
    And, Lucky Man,
    what’s the use
    of a salty thing
    if there’s no oil in it?”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.”
    —Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)