Famous quotes containing the words common, middle and/or eastern:
“This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Now, in my middle age,
about nineteen in the head Id say,
I am rowing, I am rowing....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“The more important the title, the more self-important the person, the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle, the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.”
—Jane OReilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 5 (1980)
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