Common Quotes - Page 37

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

I am not in the roll of common men.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Common sense often makes a good law.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.