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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

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

The worst affected from corruption is the common man. — Kailash Kher

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

Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man. — M.H. Rakib

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

The minutiae of the common man is the grease that slicks the gears of civilization. She — Brian McClellan

It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect. — Bohdi Sanders

But caffeine, cigarettes and cholesterol, the grim reapers of the common man - God forbid I should give them up. — Patricia Cornwell

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination. — Baba Amte

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

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. — George Eliot

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star. — Uday Kiran

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

I un-gritted my teeth to speak. "I need no more proof of tyranny.""Our only desire is the wellbeing of the common man.""I am not a man. — Rod Duncan

(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

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller. — P.T. Barnum

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

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man. — Nancy Astor

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man. — Thomas Paine

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

The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand! — Avijeet Das

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell

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

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

America is still the best country for the common man
white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else. — Eric Hoffer

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

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

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity. — Benjamin

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich. — Tony Fernandes

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

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

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

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

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man. — Henry A. Wallace

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men. — Charles Dickens

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

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. — Ludwig Von Mises

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 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

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. — William Beveridge

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common. — William Blake

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

Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average. — Tony Dungy

The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man. — Diosdado Macapagal

So an honest man is the common enemy. — Honore De Balzac

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness — Garrison Wynn

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man. — Hafez

God must love the common man, he made so many of them. — Abraham Lincoln

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose. — Confucius

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well. — Francois Rabelais

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — Aristotle.

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

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon — Herb Brooks

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

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

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. — Aristotle.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. — Confucius

The illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government. — Evan Meekins

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

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

I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do. — Abdul Sattar Edhi

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

The only way to cull the uncommon man from the common is with his clothes off. — Paula Wall

If we reject science, we reject the common man. — Naguib Mahfouz

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius. — Arthur Helps

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common. — Angus Wilson

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least. — Vince McMahon

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

The common enemy is the white man. — Malcolm X

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

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature. — Kailash Kher

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth — Paul Johnson

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? — Randall Jarrell

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

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind. — Common

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

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do. — Marcus Garvey

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider. — Mark Twain

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

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