Common Quotes

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

The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

Well, Drew. Makes you feel any better. There's one thing that Kelly and this title have in common. They'll never be seen with you.

If we reach common ground, and can understand what everybody's going through, we can really affect change. And make sure that everyone is trated equally and has the same freedom.

Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.

In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

Common knowledge, but important nonetheless

I am just a plain, common man.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.