Top 694 Commonly Quotes & Sayings

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.

The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.