Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, bank and/or series:
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A man’s labour is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilise it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilisation.”
—William Booth (1829–1912)
“Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)