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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
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
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
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
(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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
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
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
The illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.
— Evan Meekins
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
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
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
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
