Common

Famous quotes containing the word common:

    “Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.... The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
    That all sin is divided into two parts.
    One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very
    important,”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)