Roman Dutch Common

Famous quotes containing the words roman, dutch and/or common:

“The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.”
—Jerome (c. 340–420)

“Too nice is neighbor’s fool.”
—Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.

“Stiller ... took part in the Spanish Civil War ... It is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined—a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)