Common Quotes
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.
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.
It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.
Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.
Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.
I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?"
Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”
When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.
The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.
No matter what your race, creed or sexual preference, there is a word that people use to describe you that is very nasty. It's what we all have in common. That, and masturbation.
As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.
We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.