Common Quotes - page 2

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. (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
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. View quote
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. (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. View quote
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
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. (Joseph Addison)
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. View quote
Alice Walker
I am nothing special of this I am sure. I am just a common man with common thoughts. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, that has always been enough. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. View quote
Ernest Hemingway