Common Law Relationships

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or law:

    “The last Night that She lived
    It was a Common Night
    Except the Dying—this to Us
    Made Nature different”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgment of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)