Common

Famous quotes containing the word common:

“yet it seems
Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
And there’s but common greenness after that.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)