Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, bank, tennis and/or classic:
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last—but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)