Common Short Hand

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

    “yet it seems
    Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
    Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
    But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
    And there’s but common greenness after that.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Never mind if you fall far short of the thing you want to do,—encourage your effort. If no one else will say it to you, say it to yourself. “Not so bad.” It will make the next effort easier and better.”
    —Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)

    “Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)