“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes”
Oscar Wilde
“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before."”
Ronald Reagan
“Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.”
William Hazlitt
“The accountable people...should use some simple common sense - not cry political foul - and fix this problem. Next, some low-level Ohio agency will be selling our port management to terrorist countries. I would feel much safer hunting birds with Dick Cheney. At least I can see his gun.”
Mike Mattingly
“It's a great time of year for people to just be using common sense with everything from tossing cigarettes out of vehicles to just not doing any burns outside their house if they can avoid it.”
Victor Hill
“That Exxon took chances with the livelihood of 32,000 people makes the conduct, from a common sense perspective, worse.”
Brian O'Neill