Common Short Hand

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

    He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote ... takes on the character of divine revelation.
    Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)

    Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
    —“Burial of the Dead,” first anthem, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
    Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)