If your friend becomes your enemy, he will be your enemy for life.
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Parents can give everything but common sense.
When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for t...
It’s necessary that everyone does his duty and works in his place - devotes himself to constructing a body of fundamental values - against the common enemy - in a network of active, supple, inderdependent, and confederated resistance - present on e...
Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): I think you and I could be friends. Lee: If I put my gun down, right? That's your condition? Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): Can you do it? (No response) At least we can be temporary friends. We have a common ene...
I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Women and wine rid a man of his common sense.
There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
Seek advice but use your own common sense.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
Better to have one thousand enemies outside the house than to have one single enemy inside it.
And how are such wars to be waged? The wise prince will begin by assuming the enemy to be infinitely corruptible and infinitely stupid, since stupidity and corruption are the chief characteristics of man. So the prince will make himself friends in th...
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no one can be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messiah for long without overcoming this double exclu...
There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
What is common sense isn't common practice.
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
People think common sense is common - but it's not.
common sense is embedded in common things
