Commonly Sung

Famous quotes containing the words commonly and/or sung:

    Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers’ stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases ... but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, ‘tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
    Robert Burton (1577–1640)

    I have sung all night
    for the mouths that float back later,
    one by one,
    holding a lady’s wornout shoe.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)