Commonly Quotes

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.