One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense. " "Or else a fool.
The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense.
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.
The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for $31,500. He seemed to answer to a deeply rooted, distinctly American mythology, in which decency and common sense triumphed over cosmopolitan guile, and in which an idealized past held firm against a rootless and too hurriedly changing present.
High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
Those people. . . . early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington. . . can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.