It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
Alfred Marshall

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
Alfred Marshall

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
Alfred Marshall

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
Milan Kundera

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
George Mason

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Audre Lorde

Have common sense and stick to the point.
W. Somerset Maugham

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
George Soros

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
Robert Anton Wilson

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
H. P. Blavatsky

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Lord Chesterfield

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
George Berkeley

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Horace

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
Edvard Munch

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
Samuel Gompers