Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

“I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)