Common Lot Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those… — Howard W. Hunter
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it;… — Samuel Smiles
No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place. — Anna Akhmatova
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate… — Victor Hugo
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine… — George Gissing
Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with… — Seneca the Younger
The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one… — Arnold J. Toynbee
SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such… — John Kenneth Galbraith
To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father… — Joseph Fielding Smith
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,… — Abraham Verghese
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,… — Abraham Verghese
Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality,… — Thomas Sydenham

Who Wrote These Common Lot Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Common Lot Quotes as follows: