Common Years

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or years:

    “If any man can shew any just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.”
    —Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Exhortation,” (1662)

    “War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.”
    —Milan Kundera (b. 1929)