Common Pond

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or pond:

“All the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There have been many stories told about the bottom, or rather no bottom, of this pond, which certainly had no foundation for themselves. It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)