President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H. L. Mencken

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Barney Frank

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Eric Hoffer

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein