Common Men Quotes

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You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

I am just a plain, common man.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

I do not choose to be a common man.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.