Famous quotes containing the word common:
“Panurge was of medium stature, neither too large, nor too small ... and subject by nature to a malady known at the time as Money-deficiency,Ma singular hardship; nevertheless, he had sixty-three ways of finding some for his needs, the most honorable and common of which was by a form of larceny practiced furtively.”
—François Rabelais (14941553)
“... there is nothing more irritating to a feminist than the average Womans Page of a newspaper, with its out-dated assumption that all women have a common trade interest in the household arts, and a common leisure interest in clothes and the doings of high society. Womens interests to-day are as wide as the world.”
—Crystal Eastman (18811928)
“It is a common accident for men camping in the woods to be killed by a falling tree.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)