Famous quotes containing the words common people, common and/or people:
“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)
“Farmers in overalls and wide-brimmed straw hats lounge about the store on hot summer days, when the most common sound is the thump-thump-thump of a hound’s leg on the floor as he scratches contentedly. Oldtime hunters say that fleas are a hound’s salvation: his constant twisting and clawing in pursuit of the tormentors keeps his joints supple.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)