Common Year Starting

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

    “A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “Death’s a sad bone; bruised, you’d say,

    and yet she waits for me, year after year,”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “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)