Top 1200 Common Courtesy Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Love is the common currency of the poor.

Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

I talk common sense.

This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.

In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity. Instead of losing, the gentle gain. Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead!

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

The best ideas are common property.

The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress each other. I do not wish to call the place in which I live a medium, I prefer to say that things mingle with each other and that I am no exception to that. I mix with the world which mixes with me. Skin intervenes between several things in the world and makes them mingle.

There needs to be fiscal common sense.

The best things are the most common.

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

Common sense is the best prophet.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Common sense is strengthened by joy.

Actors usually have a lot in common with kids.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

The ironic factor that is between the Houthis and al-Qaida, that is, they both have strong anti-American sentiment. For example, the slogan of the Houthis is death to America and death to Israel and God curse the Jews and victory to Islam. And besides that, there is very little in common between al-Qaida and the Houthis as far as ideology goes, but they see themselves as having a common enemy, which is America. And America is in a situation, where the Houthis are fighting al-Qaida quite viciously on the ground, yet now the Americans are allied with Saudi Arabia in strikes against the Houthis.

No place is too common.

Sense is never common.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

Common Lisp is politics, not art.

I am not in the roll of common men.

Polite beggary is too common.

I like the common man character.

People have one thing in common; they are all different.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Education forms the common mind.

Common sense is very uncommon.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

The left has lost the common touch.

Christianity is part of the common law.

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Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

The work of the world is common as mud.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

We've lost common sense.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

I do not choose to be a common man.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Food is a common denominator for all people.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

All things are in common among friends.

There's no common taste in this world.

Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less expensive and less expressive than the plain doing of duty. To have bread excite thankfulness and a drink of water send the heart to God is better than sighs for the unattainable. To plow a straight furrow on Monday or dust a room well on Tuesday or kiss a bumped forehead on Wednesday is worth more than the most ecstatic thrill under Sunday eloquence. Spirituality is seeing God in common things, and showing God in common tasks.

The common enemy is the white man.

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.