Quotes of: Common-man Keyword

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

Carine Roitfeld

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Walter Bagehot

There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.

African

Seek advice but use your own common sense.

Yiddish

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

William Bennett

There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.

Bantu

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Heinrich Heine

What is common sense isn't common practice.

Stephen Covey

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Persian

People think common sense is common - but it's not.

Don Cherry

common sense is embedded in common things

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.

Sense and Sensibility

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

Robin S. Sharma

The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of exper...

Nature, Man and Woman

For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.

Lives of the Noble Romans

He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.

Traditional

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

George Eliot

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

Edmund White

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken

Common sense is not so common.

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.

Stephan Labossiere