Common Short Hand

Famous quotes containing the words common, short and/or hand:

“For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Timothy, 6:7.

The words also appear in the Book of Common Prayer, “Burial of the Dead.”

“Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

“Aeneas. ‘Tis the old Nestor.
Hector. Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle,
That hast so long walked hand in hand with time.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)