Famous quotes containing the words common and/or frequency:
“I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“One is apt to be discouraged by the frequency with which Mr. Hardy has persuaded himself that a macabre subject is a poem in itself; that, if there be enough of death and the tomb in one’s theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)