Top Common Quotes
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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 James
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine 
95% of people like this quote
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings
90% of people like this quote
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
87% of people like this quote
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 James
81% of people like this quote
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal
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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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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.
David Byrne
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
Carol Moseley Braun
73% of people like this quote
Popular Common Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyMark TwainOscar WildeJohann Wolfgang von GoetheAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoLucius Annaeus Seneca VoltaireSamuel ButlerAmbrose BierceThomas Carlyle
PlatoH. L. Mencken AristotleGilbert K. ChestertonOrison Swett MardenDoug CouplandAbraham LincolnGeorge EliotWilliam HazlittGeorge SantayanaHenry Ward BeecherEric HofferAlexander Pope HoraceMichel de Montaigne
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