Common Man Quotes
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
— Hans Jonas
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
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
Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
— Kailash Kher
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
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
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
— John Wooden
The minutiae of the common man is the grease that slicks the gears of civilization. She
— Brian McClellan
But caffeine, cigarettes and cholesterol, the grim reapers of the common man - God forbid I should give them up.
— Patricia Cornwell
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.
— Chad Harbach
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
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
(Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even
— Peter Straub
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
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
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 common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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
My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
— Kailash Kher
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need
— Thomas Aquinas
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
The biggest threat to the common working man is a bloated central government that is bankrupt.
— K. Edwin Brandon
So an honest man is the common enemy.
— Honore De Balzac
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
— Isabel Allende
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
— Marcus Garvey
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
To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.
— Pearl S. Buck
Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.
— Leigh Bardugo
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
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
— Herbert Hoover
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
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
— Tony Fernandes
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
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
The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.
— William Blake
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
— A.P. Herbert
The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.
— Harriet Hanson Robinson
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
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.
We will preserve the right to counsel for the common man in this age of oligarchic anarchy.
— Kenneth Eade
I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
— Kailash Kher
I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.
— Abdul Sattar Edhi
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
— Thomas Jefferson
I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.
— Louis MacNeice
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
If we reject science, we reject the common man.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth
— Paul Johnson
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
— Olympe De Gouges
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
— Mark Twain
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 only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man
— Norman Whiteside
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
The common enemy is the white man.
— Malcolm X
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
— Robert C. Gallagher
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
Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
— John Le Carre
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.
— Dave Ramsey
The illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.
— Evan Meekins
As to that Sidney, he sounds a very fine man - but bossy. It's a failing common in men.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
— Robert Casey
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
— George Dana Boardman Pepper
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.
— George Gissing
