Commonly Quotes

412 quotes by 287 authors

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken. — David Hume
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If… — Rose Macaulay
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves… — Gautama Buddha
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert. — Austin O'Malley
Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they… — Zuzana Licko
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them.… — Dave Sim
I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended… — Peter Oppenheimer
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only… — Thomas Merton
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense… — Thucydides
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man… — Ambrose Bierce
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. — Rutherford B. Hayes
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless… — Andre Breton
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an… — Pope Francis
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the… — Mary Wortley Montagu
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their… — Donna Tartt
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. — Gregory Bateson
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice. — Bertha Knight Landes
In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing.… — Terry Rossio

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