Common sense Quote by John Mortimer Download Open image “No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.” — John Mortimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common sense
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Brilliance is a blessed ignorance of innocent mind, impatient heart and intuitive soul to ignite curiosity that leads and culminates into sheer and consistent… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization. — Jon Bentley Copy Share Image
Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine… — Gennifer Choldenko Copy Share Image
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
“One's brilliance shall not be limited to someone's expertise” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than we ever… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Take sex, for instance.' 'What do you want me to do with it?' 'Try to be serious for a moment. Take the sex life… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Voting Liberal is a non-thing. Historically, it might be a good idea to have a Conservative government, because change is a good thing. But… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I try and treat my children from the age of ten months as if they were totally grown up, which I think is the… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no… — Kim Stanley Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
“It was true that common sense wasn’t her forte. It wasn’t that she was silly or stupid, but she heard so many more voices… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“The accident in your rearview mirror already happened. The one in front of you is still preventable. Pay attention.” — Nakia R. Laushaul Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image