Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ...… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc.… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the… — Feist Copy Share Image
The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense. I believe… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image