Common Short Hand

Famous quotes containing the words common, short and/or hand:

“It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Miniver loved the Medici,
Albeit he hand never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
Could he have been one.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)