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...
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but ...
The quest for this unwearied inner peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teachings of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundations of a large spiritual serenity. Ana...
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?
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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?
What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
