Common Quotes

4888 quotes by 3018 authors

It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of our separate and… — Hazel Hawke
I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as… — Hazel Hawke
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that… — Henry Ward Beecher
Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind;… — Frederick William Faber
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true. — Elbert Hubbard
By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. — Phyllis Diller
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of… — David Foster Wallace
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is… — Henry Ward Beecher
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can… — Richard V. Allen
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to… — Edmund Burke
Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common. — Rudolf Flesch
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. — Horace Walpole
Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all… — Thomas Sowell
In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice… — Eugene Ionesco
We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly… — Coretta Scott King
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best,… — Michael Eric Dyson
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own… — Socrates
In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy. — Max De Pree
Friends should have all things in common. — Plato

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