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The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense.""Or else a fool. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
— Carine Roitfeld
The greatest communication barrier known to man is the lack of the common core of experience "When's the last time you had a Manic Episode Doctor"?
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
— Heinrich Heine
I am just a plain, common man.
— Nicholas II Of Russia
Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.
— Henry Thomas Buckle
A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.
— Walter De La Mare
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
— Peter O'Toole
The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
— Hector Hugh Munro
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
— John Wooden
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
— George Eliot
The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
— Robert Benchley
I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.
— Greg Graffin
There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!
— Bartholomew Roberts
I am a common man. Why do I need security?
— Kariya Munda
If gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust ...
— Geoffrey Chaucer
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
— William Hazlitt
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
— Henry Fielding
A man who can set out in a cab for a fancy-dress ball and not get there is manifestly a poop of no common order.
— P.G. Wodehouse
There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are
— The Town And Country Magazine. Vol. 11, 1779
The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
— Jacques Maritain
For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust
-The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales- — Geoffrey Chaucer
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.
— Swami Vivekananda
If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.
— Velupillai Prabhakaran
I do not choose to be a common man.
— Dean Alfange
Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man,
— Manmohan Singh
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
— William Allen White
A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. — James Thurber
No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The governments and their policies have failed, the church is the last hope of the common man, I value a church that is a home for all.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
— Y. C. James Yen
Flattery from a man who displayed no common sense or self-control, much less reverence for God, meant nothing to him. I
— Lynn Austin
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth
— Paul Johnson
A man is only as common as his dreams.
— Harvey Smith
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
— Francois Rabelais
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
— William Feather
It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
— Martha Plimpton
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.
— Dave Ramsey
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
— Robert C. Gallagher
As to that Sidney, he sounds a very fine man - but bossy. It's a failing common in men.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
— Kailash Kher
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
— Edward Gibbon
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
— John Le Carre
It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.
— Paul Gauguin
Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse.
— Elizabeth Bear
You're a part of the order if you're not against it.
— Saleem Sharma
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
— Samuel Johnson
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
— Maira Kalman
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
— Joseph Addison
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[I am] just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, who's anxious to be right.
— Harry Truman
I don't need a hero. I was blessed with a large amount of common sense, which is of infinitely more use than a man.
— Karen Hawkins
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
— A.P. Herbert
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
— Herbert Hoover
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'
— Bertrand Russell
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The biggest threat to the common working man is a bloated central government that is bankrupt.
— K. Edwin Brandon
To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.
— Indiana Lang
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
— Edmund White
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
— Arthur Helps
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?
— Randall Jarrell
