Commonly Quotes

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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read… — Ambrose Bierce
Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as… — Martin Luther
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. — Pierre Charron
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients… — Ambrose Bierce
What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647;… — Victor Hugo
The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity. — John Stuart Mill
In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted… — Steven Pinker
Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a… — Will Smith
Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of… — Georg Ernst Stahl
Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than… — Jeremy Bentham
What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it… — Henry Petroski
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are… — Bruce Sterling
Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal… — Joseph Addison
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning… — Marston Bates
What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious… — Samuel Adams
It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what… — Samuel Johnson
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth… — Ambrose Bierce
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most… — Henry Adams

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