Commonly Abused

Famous quotes containing the words commonly and/or abused:

“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)