Common Side

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or side:

    “We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life.”
    —Book Of Common Prayer, The. The Burial of the Dead (1662)

    “We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)