Quotes of: Common-people Keyword

People are not two-thirds one thing and the remainder something else. Temperament, personality, or outlook don’t divide quite like that. The bits don’t separate clearly. You end up a funny homogeneous mixture. This is something that will become m...

Kazuo Ishiguro

First do no harm. -Hippocrates Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

The Common Sense Guide to Dementia for Clinicians and Caregivers

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Call for the Dead

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Discourse on Method

There is no UFO and also there is no alien, at least not in common mind nor reference.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Sorry, he said penitently. It’s a book. I have no common sense around them.

The Bell at Sealey Head

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

F. L. Lucas

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

Infinity

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Recollections on the French Revolution

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna." ["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

Satires, Book I

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

In Memoriam

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Looking Forward

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

Odes to Common Things

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Patty at Home

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. V

I picked up a hitchhiker. Later on I picked up some common sense and soda. The soda was all-natural, like the hooker from earlier.

Xazaqazax

Zane stole her breath and her common sense with just a smile. When he actually touched her, it was even worse.

Zane

The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them.

D.E. Navarro

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.