Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
Bob Hope

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
John Calvin

Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes