Common

Famous quotes containing the word common:

    “Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.”
    —Book Of Common Prayer, The. The Second Sunday in Advent, “The Collect,” (1662)

    “It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
    That all sin is divided into two parts.
    One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very
    important,”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)