Famous quotes containing the words common words, common and/or words:
“If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called ‘vague.’”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)