Famous quotes containing the word commonly:
“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance—in brief, what is commonly called sportsmanship.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)