Famous quotes containing the words common and/or examples:
“The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)