"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to…" — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable."
More Commonplace Quotes
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,… — Cecil Beaton
- To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is… — Jorge Luis Borges
- Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. — Samuel Butler
- Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick… — George Carlin
- Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark… — Willa Cather
- Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and… — Jean Cocteau
- It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very… — William J. Clinton
- In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see… — Blaise Pascal
- Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the… — William James
- Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial… — Cesare Pavese
- Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may… — Samuel Smiles
- In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned… — Christopher Fry