Commonest Quotes

59 Commonest quotes by 49 unique authors

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak. — Mark Twain
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the… — Charles Dudley Warner
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages. — James M. Barrie
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. — Jane Austen
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations… — Florence Nightingale
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection.… — Virginia Woolf
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note. — Igor Stravinsky
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw
What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow… — Walt Whitman
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from… — George Eliot
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most… — W.N.P. Barbellion
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of… — David Seabury
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. — Oscar Wilde
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic – something or other… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion. — Kin Hubbard
It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences… — J. W. N. Sullivan
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they… — Henry David Thoreau
Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious. — Carl Jung
URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the… — Ambrose Bierce
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power.… — Martin Luther
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography. — Marston Bates

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