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One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."
"Or else a fool. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All writing is dreaming — Jorge Luis Borges

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 man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw

Brings domesticity and common sense, and that propriety which every man loves, directly into this hurly-burly, and makes every bully ashamed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. — Henry Fielding

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful. — Willard Van Orman Quine

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

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness. — Maira Kalman

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

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do. — Toni Braxton

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.

Flattery from a man who displayed no common sense or self-control, much less reverence for God, meant nothing to him. I — Lynn Austin

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. — Samuel Johnson

1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.
1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man. — Larry Niven

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

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

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power. — Peter Horton

There's something presumptuous in writing an autobiography, as if people's interest in your life is a given. — Simon Pegg

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

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense. — Winston Churchill

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

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. — Robert Casey

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. — Sam Rayburn

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations. — Thomas Jefferson

She believed she was ordinary? Impossible! Any man with common sense would see what I do. The more she went on the angrier I became.#Ren — Colleen Houck

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise. — Don Herold

Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice. — SARK

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage. — John Le Carre

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. — Rene Descartes

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. — James Anthony Froude