common-sense

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
0413dd8	Top 15 Things Money Can't Bu	character class common-sense dignity happiness health inner-peace inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes integrity life life-quotes love manners money morals patience respect time trust	Roy T. Bennett
b12d50f	Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.	common-sense equality feminism humanism humor inspirational men-and-women	George Carlin
c472423	Common sense is not so common.	common-sense	Voltaire
2d284e7	Things do not change; we change.	inspirational philosophy common-sense	henry david thoreau
cc499f6	The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.	common-sense enterprise hard-work inspirational perseverance persistence success thomas-edison	Thomas A. Edison
9393ca4	Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain	common-sense inspirational	Henry Ford
48e9a2d	Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.	common-sense m-m-kaye wisdom	M.M. Kaye
29ba9a4	Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.	common-sense inspirational wisdom	William Blake
13cdaad	The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.	afterlife calm common-sense cradle darkness death eternity existence life life-after-death light man	Vladimir Nabokov
1e8ff8e	We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.	common-sense truth universe way-of-life	Paulo Coelho
bf76c20	New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram--to see what will happen if she has an abortion--you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn't. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.	common-sense freedom	Bill Maher
0c37dac	Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?	common-sense life society	Paulo Coelho
2a9e520	The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us.	common-sense daughter farming mother ranch work	Jeannette Walls
9383d45	She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.	common-sense fashion nonsense victorian-era	Jeannette Walls
ca4e706	"All's well that ends well.' 'Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled "This is the end." Is the top rung of a ladder labeled "This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?" Aomame shook her head. 'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said. Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.' Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't' -- he made a falling gesture with his finger -- 'the end is right there."	common-sense end endings eyes-wide-open hope hopelessness keep-going-keep-your-eyes-open ladder suicide	Haruki Murakami
807a523	People regard art too highly, and history not enough	common-sense history	John Irving
6ef2e83	Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.	brothers common-sense funny ignored siblings stupidity	Patricia C. Wrede
0712e0b	...the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?	common-sense elite	Thomas Sowell
723801d	His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous society, and all his life could be as open and sunny as the square beneath him. He had, on the other other hand, only to keep his antiquated honour, and be delivered inch by inch into the power of this great enemy of mankind, whose very intellect was a torture-chamber. Whenever he looked down into the square he saw the comfortable policeman, a pillar of common sense and common order. Whenever he looked back at the breakfast-table he saw the President still quietly studying him with big, unbearable eyes.	common-sense honor	G.K. Chesterton
9b5ac02	That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.	common-sense	Vladimir Nabokov
9474c6f	The most profound legacy of the dominance of bureaucratic forms of organization over the last two hundred years is that it has made this intuitive division between rational, technical means and the ultimately irrational ends to which they are put seem like common sense.	common-sense	David Graeber
dbea225	Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.	common-sense	P.D. James

Top 15 Things Money Can't Bu

character class common-sense dignity happiness health inner-peace inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes integrity life life-quotes love manners money morals patience respect time trust

Roy T. Bennett

b12d50f

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

common-sense equality feminism humanism humor inspirational men-and-women

George Carlin

c472423

Common sense is not so common.

common-sense

Voltaire

2d284e7

Things do not change; we change.

inspirational philosophy common-sense

henry david thoreau

cc499f6

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

common-sense enterprise hard-work inspirational perseverance persistence success thomas-edison

Thomas A. Edison

9393ca4

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

common-sense inspirational

Henry Ford

48e9a2d

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

common-sense m-m-kaye wisdom

M.M. Kaye

29ba9a4

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

common-sense inspirational wisdom

William Blake

13cdaad

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.

afterlife calm common-sense cradle darkness death eternity existence life life-after-death light man

Vladimir Nabokov

1e8ff8e

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

common-sense truth universe way-of-life

Paulo Coelho

bf76c20

New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram--to see what will happen if she has an abortion--you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn't. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.

common-sense freedom

Bill Maher

0c37dac

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

common-sense life society

Paulo Coelho

2a9e520

The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us.

common-sense daughter farming mother ranch work

Jeannette Walls

9383d45

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

common-sense fashion nonsense victorian-era

Jeannette Walls

ca4e706

"All's well that ends well.' 'Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled "This is the end." Is the top rung of a ladder labeled "This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?" Aomame shook her head. 'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said. Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.' Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't' -- he made a falling gesture with his finger -- 'the end is right there."

common-sense end endings eyes-wide-open hope hopelessness keep-going-keep-your-eyes-open ladder suicide

Haruki Murakami

807a523

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

common-sense history

John Irving

6ef2e83

Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.

brothers common-sense funny ignored siblings stupidity

Patricia C. Wrede

0712e0b

...the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

common-sense elite

Thomas Sowell

723801d

His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous society, and all his life could be as open and sunny as the square beneath him. He had, on the other other hand, only to keep his antiquated honour, and be delivered inch by inch into the power of this great enemy of mankind, whose very intellect was a torture-chamber. Whenever he looked down into the square he saw the comfortable policeman, a pillar of common sense and common order. Whenever he looked back at the breakfast-table he saw the President still quietly studying him with big, unbearable eyes.

common-sense honor

G.K. Chesterton

9b5ac02

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.

common-sense

Vladimir Nabokov

9474c6f

The most profound legacy of the dominance of bureaucratic forms of organization over the last two hundred years is that it has made this intuitive division between rational, technical means and the ultimately irrational ends to which they are put seem like common sense.

common-sense

David Graeber

dbea225

Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.

common-sense

P.D. James