I don’t know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. ~ William Somerset MaughamTweetShareSharePin
Our common language is … English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. ~ William John BennettTweetShareSharePin
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose … that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans. ~ William Jefferson ClintonTweetShareSharePin
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ~ Walter LippmannTweetShareSharePin
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ~ Walter BesantTweetShareSharePin
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~ Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTweetShareSharePin
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~ Robert Green IngersollTweetShareSharePin
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense – no one needs more of it than one already has ~ Rene DescartesTweetShareSharePin
Nowadays 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. ~ Oscar WildeTweetShareSharePin
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known — that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ~ Norman O. BrownTweetShareSharePin
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional. ~ Laurie E. ColwinTweetShareSharePin
But when a Man???s Fancy gets astride on his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and common Understanding, as well as common Sense, is Kickt out of Doors; the first Proselyte he makes, is Himself, and when that is once compass???d, the Diffi ~ Jonathan SwiftTweetShareSharePin
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life’s possibilities. ~ James Arthur BaldwinTweetShareSharePin
It’s counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe. ~ Ian J. DavenportTweetShareSharePin