Famous quotes containing the words common and/or examples:
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)