Common Use Quotes
7 quotes by 6 authors
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise…
— Joseph Story
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In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the…
— Alfred Marshall
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The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means…
— John Calvin
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In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
— Alfred Marshall
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Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there…
— Ambrose
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The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust…
— Salman Rushdie
Who Wrote These Common Use Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 7 Common Use Quotes as follows: