Commonly Abused

Famous quotes containing the words commonly and/or abused:

“Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We have tried so hard to adulterate our hearts, and have so greatly abused the microscope to study the hideous excrescences and shameful warts which cover them and which we take pleasure in magnifying, that it is impossible for us to speak the language of other men.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)