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.
My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in the grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Common sense hides shame.
Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.
Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
Good sense is the master of human life.
In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Doesn't make much sense to me to spray everything with chemicals when you're trying to clean.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
Common Sense is very uncommon.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Copyrighted © 2020 — Quotation.io. All rights reserved.
