Act I, sc. iv
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”
Variant: Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.
Source: The Lucky One
Source: How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010), p. 52.
“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
Source: Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), Ch. 23
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 299
“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”
No. 305
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.”
Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
I.74
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Source: Miracles (1947), Ch. 7: "A Chapter of Red Herrings"
Elizabeth Green, Chapter 15, Beth, p. 274
Variant: Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)
Source: 2000s, The Lucky One (2008)
