Common Short Hand

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

    “You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate
    As reek a’th’rotten fens, whose loves I prize
    As the dead carcasses of unburied men
    That do corrupt my air—I banish you!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “But come what sorrow can,
    It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
    That one short minute gives me in her sight.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)