Famous quotes containing the words common, law and/or larceny:
“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we “mingle with the herd of common men.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”
—Paul Gallico (1897–1976)