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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. — Alexander Pope

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

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. — Samuel Johnson

An equation commonly contains one or more so-called unknowns, often represented by x, y, z, etc. — Stieg Larsson

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful. — Samuel Johnson

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

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages. — John Milton

Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We — Richard Carlson

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest. — Guillaume-Chretien De Lamoignon De Malesherbes

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. — Francis Bacon

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed. — Anne Bronte

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. — Martin Luther

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy. — Miguel De Cervantes

It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform
and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green. — John Ruskin

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

I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed. — Laurie Colwin

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him. — Ambrose Bierce

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade. — Miranda Richardson

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales. — Cory Doctorow

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. — Robert Hooke

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice. — Bertha Knight Landes

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. — Thorstein Veblen

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

It matters not where or how far you travel,
the farther commonly the worse,
but how much alive you are. — Henry David Thoreau

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. — Lord Chesterfield

It's a commonly known fact that while cats can't stand ghosts, spiders love them. — Jonathan Stroud

Nearness to nature ... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. — Charles Eastman

An 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. — Marge Piercy

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. — Michel De Montaigne

is commonly felt that the — Melvin Powers

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death. — Bion Of Smyrna

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence. — George Crabbe

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

(forks did not appear until the late fourteenth century and weren't commonly used until the Renaissance). — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. — Martin Heidegger

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart. — Thomas Brooks

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell

Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer. — Paul Stamets

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of. — Ambrose Bierce

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. — Ambrose Bierce

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love. — Samuel Johnson

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. — J.L. Austin

(not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction). To — Randall Munroe

A lie is a lie ... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a commonly held belief. — Christopher Titus

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. — Michel De Montaigne

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed. — Gertrude Jekyll

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. — Isaac Barrow

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed. — George Henry Lewes

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us. — Tod Machover

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound. — Austin O'Malley

There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an 'idea'. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave. — Leah Broadby

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. — Francis Bacon

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

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

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. — Elbert Hubbard

The color brown, I realized, is anything but nondescript. It comes in as many hues as there are colors of earth, with is commonly presumed infinite. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers. — Orhan Pamuk

Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall. — Henry Kimsey-House

History is the lie commonly agreed upon. — Voltaire

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

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it. — Thomas Browne

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly. — Julius And Ethel Rosenberg

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time. — Gary Webb

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. — Francis Bacon

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. — John Welwood

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. — Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. — Henry David Thoreau

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. — James Russell Lowell

The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth. — John Flavel

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion. — Lord Chesterfield

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance. — John Dryden

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded. — David Hume

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. — Michael Marmot

Society is commonly too cheap. — Henry David Thoreau

The God that we commonly know may be less sinister than the true God that we don't know for sure. — Toba Beta

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Diabetics are commonly obese because excess carbohydrates get stored as fat, not because they eat too much fat. — Ankit Pandey

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

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. — Charles Lyell

because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted. — Ralph Ellison

It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men. — Salman Rushdie

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. — John Webster

If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes — Plato

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. — William Hazlitt

Even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. — Edith Wharton

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He understood, as he would write in "Walking," that "the hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. — Henry David Thoreau

But they are commonly more distinguished by their superiority in the latter than in the former. Their — Adam Smith