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The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.
— Linda Sunshine
TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English!
ELEVEN [slowly]. He doesn't even speak good English. — Sherman L. Sergel
ELEVEN [slowly]. He doesn't even speak good English. — Sherman L. Sergel
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
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
women are often blessed with more common sense than men.
— Jeffrey Archer
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
Talk of treasure is as common as sand. Truth is not contained in any one grain. One must know how to sift it from the legends and wishes of old men.
— Andrew C. Katen
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
What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.
— Ruth Benedict
In Paris, it's common to acknowledge someone attractive. The French don't avert their gaze like other cultures do. Haven't you noticed?
— Stephanie Perkins
God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
— Hudson Taylor
No - you men never do consider economy and common sense.
— Charlotte Bronte
A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
— Emily Dickinson
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
Agression is a trait common to men and new gods.
— Emil Cioran
I am not in the roll of common men.
— William Shakespeare
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
— Richard Steele
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
— Phyllis Bottome
I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes — William Shakespeare
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes — William Shakespeare
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
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
— Ogden Nash
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?
— Randall Jarrell
It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
— Marcus Garvey
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
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.
— Harriet Hanson Robinson
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
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
— Jacqueline Winspear
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
Men and women have been taught so much about each other that they don't use their common sense et al!
— Saurabh Sharma
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
— Francois Rabelais
My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
— Swami Vivekananda
Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.
— Teresa Medeiros
The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.
— William Blake
It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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
The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
— Bhagat Puran Singh
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
— Orison Swett Marden
The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
— Brian Tracy
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
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.
— Ludwig Von Mises
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
It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.
— Charles Francis Richter
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
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
— John Henry Newman
The common enemy is the white man.
— Malcolm X
Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
— Chester W. Nimitz
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
Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.
— William Shakespeare
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
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.
— Dave Ramsey
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
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
— William H. Macy
Poets and children sometimes see things that escape the eyes of common men.
— Christopher Daniel Mechling
As to that Sidney, he sounds a very fine man - but bossy. It's a failing common in men.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
— Eugenie Clark
These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
— William Shakespeare
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
— Roger L'Estrange
It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
— Thomas Browne
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
— Friedrich Schiller