Common Quotes - page 2

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. (Edith Wharton)
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. View quote
David Byrne
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. View quote
William Osler
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. View quote
Joan Crawford
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. View quote
Eric Hoffer
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. View quote
Mark Twain
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. View quote
Plutarch
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. (Giambattista Vico)
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal. View quote
Cory Doctorow
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! View quote
William Hazlitt
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. View quote
James Shirley
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. View quote
Norman Borlaug
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. View quote
Giorgio de Chirico
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. View quote
Seneca
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. View quote
Joseph Addison
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