Famous quotes containing the words common and/or law:
“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)
“Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)