Famous quotes containing the words common and/or examples:
“The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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 (1533–1592)