Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, bank, tennis and/or classic:
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to hold the racket.”
—Maria Bueno (b. 1939)
“On desperate seas long wont to roam,
The hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)