Top 1200 Common Courtesy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

'Nice' is not a common label for comedians, but it is for Canadians. I like it.

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Common sense often makes good law.

Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

One of the common conditions on both sides of my families is diabetes.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

I believe that one thing all humans have in common is the fear of death.

The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.

The long-distance ones are the most common goals I have scored.

I love when a protagonist and antagonist can find common ground.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

I am a common man. Why do I need security?

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as is his wont, and essentially linked the call to Taiwan with a whole series of things he doesn't like about Chinese economic and foreign policies and implied that the U.S. views of the status of Taiwan are now up for negotiation, that he wants them to be part of a broader negotiation with China about a whole series of economic and foreign policy issues. So, we just don't really know what exactly they're planing to do with this.

If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force - for the same reason - cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.

To me, it's a common thing to go somewhere and box there.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.