Common Language

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or language:

“If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“This is an approach to that universal language which men have sought in vain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)