(457 quotes found)
“My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.”
Katharine Hepburn
“I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Common sense is very uncommon.”
Horace Greeley
“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79”
Douglas Adams
“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”
Helen Rowland
“If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.”
Joan Crawford
“A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Citizens have the natural right and the common sense duty to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their property...guns are the equalizing tools of self-protection, utopian lamentations notwithstanding.”
Edgar A. Suter
“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure”
