Quotes About Common

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.