A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
John Ratzenberger

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
Gustav Stresemann

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
Daniel Akaka

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
Ellsworth Huntington

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
Henry David Thoreau

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.
Armstrong Williams

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
Larry Page

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
Natan Sharansky

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
Alexander John Ellis

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Peter De Vries

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
Desiderius Erasmus

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.
Vito Fossella

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
John Thune

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
Ang Lee

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Helen Fielding

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard