Common Quotes

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

I am not in the roll of common men.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

We share a lot in common, attitude wise.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.