| "It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." »H.L. Mencken |
| "It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett |
| "Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys." »Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine |
| "School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (common sense is not so common)" »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe." »Ian J. Davenport |
| "Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club." »Thomas Huxley |
| "The best ideas are common property." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Friends have all things in common." »Plato |
| "Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential." »Howard Hendricks |
| "There is still no cure for the common birthday." »John Glenn |
| "All things are in common among friends." »Laertius Diogenes |
| "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." »Oscar Wilde |
| "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next." »Matthew Arnold |
| "Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has" »Rene Descartes |
| "To err from the right path is common to mankind." »Sophocles |
| "common sense often makes good law." »William Orville Douglas |
| "The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception." »Hietzsche |
| "We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." »John Locke |
| "I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited." »George Santayana |
| "For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." »John Herschel Glenn, Jr. |
| "The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." »Harlan Ellison |
| "common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education." »Victor Hugo |
| "The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy." »Sam Levenson |
| "It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them." »Dame Rose Macaulay |
| "The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr. |
| "Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense." »Thomas Huxley |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
