Ordinary Real

Famous quotes containing the words ordinary and/or real:

“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nor drove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)