I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Vince McMahon

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Paul Simon

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Barbara Ehrenreich

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Edward Gibbon

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
Jean Racine

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
Ursula K. Le Guin

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Franz Liszt

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
Ernest Thompson Seton

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles Lamb

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
Maynard James Keenan

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
Heinrich Heine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
Ulrich Beck

Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.
David Carradine

Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
William Bligh

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan