Quotes About Common

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Richard had not been minded to levy any tax at all upon the common people. "Why should they pay of the little they have, when there is immeasurable wealth in the hands of a few nobles?

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

Lung replacement was a common emergency surgery these days,

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

Where classical and medieval rhetorical pragmatism diverges from modern, I think, is in assigning a crucial role to a notion of common memory, accessed by an individual through education, which acts to "complete" uninformed individual experience.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

I am nothing special of this I am sure. I am just a common man with common thoughts. 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, that has always been enough.

The comfort, then, is the weird truth that in one sense we have most in common with others when we feel awkward and alone. Isolation is as universal as it gets.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent.

it is a common error to confuse data with truth: the former informs the latter, but they are not the same thing

It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."

By "radical" I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched for the deepest roots of problems. The opposite of radical is not "moderate" or "conservative" but "common.

He sensed that this thought was not actually common to them, but rather that they would be in common only in this thought.

Also the moon and I have this in common: we both are wanderers across the night.

Thinking those old sticks looked authoritative, somehow. Like something belonging to an ancient queen come ashore by mistake in a common land full of limits.

The GOP survived the Civil War and North v South. It will not fade as we have a common enemy. A democrat.

Because finding the differences upon which we can hang hatred is much easier than discovering the common ground that can unite.

Though most people believe exercise is a "very effective" way to lose weight,3085 that has been referred to as a "myth" in the scientific literature.3086 In fact, it's been labeled as one of the most common misconceptions in the field of obesity,

The first approach is the predictive approach, which is the most common approach to Revelation, focusing on the future. This approach is not, however, a recent invention; it goes back to some of the earliest interpreters of Revelation, such as Justin Martyr and Irenaeus in the second century and Victorinus in the third,

Taxation is not only a way of raising revenue; it is also a way of expressing a society's judgement about what counts as a valuable contribution to the common good