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.
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies c...
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common se...
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in w...
The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette's syndrome: "Wisdom is encoded in our common language. We all have, to some extent, a complex, sometimes adversarial, relationship with our physical selves. And ...
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Of what need is teamwork without a common goal?
Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.
There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
I believe in cooperating for the common good.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
