Common Grains

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or grains:

“People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Many grains of sand piled up will make a pagoda.”
—Chinese proverb.