Common Quotes
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!
The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other
I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.
Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.
I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.
To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person.
The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.
Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear she felt the same about him.
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars
To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.