Famous quotes containing the words common and/or practices:
“All the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)