Common/people

Famous quotes containing the words common people, common and/or people:

“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

“It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)