Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or common:
“On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would have held up his head in their company.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)