Common Year Starting

Famous quotes containing the words common, year and/or starting:

    “I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we “mingle with the herd of common men.””
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “And down in fathoms many went the captain and the crew;
    Down went the owners—greedy men whom hope of gain
    allured:
    Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)