Commonplaces Quotes

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.