Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, bank and/or series:
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)