Common Reading Experience

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

    “The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations’ love to the deceased.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “The only thing experience teaches you is what you can’t do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.”
    —Elaine May (b. 1932)