Famous quotes containing the words common and/or notions:
“It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)