Common sense is genius in homespun.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
I was also in love with the English language.
Noble and common blood is of the same color.
Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.
The creation of language is the creation of a fiction. The minute we speak we are in that fiction. It’s a fiction designed, we hope, to reveal a truth. There is no “pure” language. The only “pure language” is the initial sounds of a baby. A...
Love understands all languages.
A blanket could be used to cure the common cold. I mean, come on it’s just common sense. A blanket is warm, and if a cold is what it’s named, then a blanket would transform a cold into some nameless nonentity. Take that, Louis Pasteur.
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts...
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Music truly is the universal language.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
Intelligence is worthless without common sense.
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
Common sense often makes good law.
Common sense is very uncommon.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
