Base Quotes

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. (William Blake)
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. View quote
Babe Ruth
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. View quote
George S. Patton
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. View quote
Gilda Radner
I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there. View quote
Mickey Spillane
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. View quote
Giordano Bruno
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Less base the fear of death than fear of life. View quote
Edward Young
We have to base architecture on the environment. (Toyo Ito)
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. View quote
Francis Crick
Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. View quote
Zane Grey
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. View quote
John Ruskin
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. View quote
Woody Allen
I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it. View quote
Peter Carey
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. View quote
William Cowper
My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction. View quote
Jack Dorsey
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. (Scott Adams)
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. View quote
Havelock Ellis
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. View quote
Sydney Smith
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base. View quote
Dave Barry