Common

Famous quotes containing the word common:

“It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“And fade into the light of common day.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)