Common Quotes

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein)
The best ideas are common property. View quote
Seneca
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. View quote
John F. Kennedy
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. View quote
Kofi Annan
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. (W. H. Auden)
Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. View quote
Aphra Behn
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. View quote
Victor Hugo
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. View quote
William Ralph Inge
What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. View quote
Franz Kafka
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. View quote
Sam Levenson
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity. View quote
George Soros
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. (William Cobbett)
The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. View quote
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