But where, says some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of...

Once again, environmentalist scare-mongering seeks to undermine common-sense reforms that shore up our energy infrastructure.

Two cents in the pocket, is better than no sense in the head.

It was time for tea as it so often was.

Funny Bone” must have been a masochist, because hitting it is not funny at all…

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

It is love that is sacred,” she said.” Listen, child, to an old woman who has seen three generations, and who has had a long experience of men and women. Marriage and love have nothing...

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.

…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

Les moustiques porteurs du paludisme n’attendront pas poliment jusqu’à ce que les gens se couchent sous des moustiquaires

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

I picked up a hitchhiker. Later on I picked up some common sense and soda. The soda was all-natural, like the hooker from earlier.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn’t be a problem.

When interpreted as infallible, the truth claims of powerful institutions — whether religious or secular — tend to emphasise the fallibility of individuals and their subjective ethical intuitions; thus, undermining self-reliance, including people’s ability to...

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will...

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Need doesn’t care about being sensible.

Yelling doesn’t get your point across, it only makes it louder.

You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance.

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people… have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk

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Al contrario de lo que piensa el sentido común, las cosas de la voluntad nunca son simples, lo que es simple es la indecisión, la incertidumbre, la irresolución…

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do.

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

If you keep running into the same wall over and over again, turn.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to

If one divided all of human science into two parts – the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned – the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former....

In science common sense is nonsense and nonsense is sense.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

TO ALL MANKINDSpeak kind wordsto mankindand the unkindwill attack you.Speak common senseusing any of your senses,and you will be attacked bythe senseless.Speak truth,and you will be attacked bythe untruthful.Speak about absolutely nothing,and absolutely nothingwill speak...

if you bully then you should expect to be bullied

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naively realistic, but that is what it would like to be. Common-sense is naively realistic wherever it does not think that there...

Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like disapproving of rain.

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

When someone shows youwho they are,believe them the first time.

Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you’re going downhill.