Sorry, he said penitently. It’s a book. I have no common sense around them.
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.
Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.
Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna." ["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]
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.
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.
Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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.
Zane stole her breath and her common sense with just a smile. When he actually touched her, it was even worse.
I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.
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.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.
Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
