Quotes About Common

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good neighbors doesn't mean nodding one to another.

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.