Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.
Common sense speaks clearly...if you listen
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.
You know, Professor, this stray kitten and you have one very important thing in common.' 'I can't imagine,' responded the professor coolly. 'Your life is the most important thing in the world to you,' said His Holiness. 'Same for this kitten.
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prize-fighter? Who would stoop to be fearless - like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear.
There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one ...
Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.
Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get mor...
It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection
I got excited when I saw a midget, and then disappointed when I realized it was just a child. Those things are so common.
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.
It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants from falling in the same traps as they had.
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
