Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation
Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.
Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.
The heresy of heresies was common sense.
Where there is no common power, there is no law
Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.
Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.
She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.
I am for America because America is for the common people.
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
