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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Aristotle

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Oscar Wilde

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Thomas Jefferson

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

James Madison

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

William Shakespeare

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Samuel Butler

[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.

Lord Chesterfield

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Josh Billings

Shared values and common interests - much more can be built on these than on gratitude alone.

Horst Koehler

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

Common interests will be stressed and differences can be narrowed.

Wang Jisi

What they have in common is that if the reviewer did not already possess them, he would long for them most greedily.

Christopher Lehmann haupt

We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

Otto Schily

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

Antisthenes

There's a common cheek, and it's this pastel pink, really pretty cheek.

Bill Blass

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

Bam Margera

It doesn't cost any tax money. It's common sense.

Katherine Freund

It is actually not terribly common to have a mistrial in a murder case.

Lori Sitler

This is most certainly not the bird flu. This is a common illness in birds.

Jennifer Pflugfelder

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

Our hair is very brittle and dry so it shouldn't be washed as often. We need as much moisture as we can get, so it's common that we add oil to our hair.

Vivian Blount

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

James I Of England

Although it's a new thing for the University, it is really very common.

Alicia Browne

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Cory Doctorow

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Bryant H. Mcgill

The most common comment is that this (discussion of racism) is a long time coming.

Michelle Hoffman

This scale of capital upgrade is certainly not a common occurrence here, but it is something that the Cape could certainly use more of.

Mark O'brien

Most cities have restrictions for carrying concealed weapons. It's a common situation.

Marty Conboy

We have a common bond, us dancers. We are one big community.

Anwar Nasir

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

George Eliot

But if he did do it, he should have the common decency to admit it.

Robert Munson

It's not that common, but it happens.

Knut Johnson

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

Matthew Hale

Out here, we all have something in common. Now I'll be here for our senior season.

Chris Ellis

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard

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

Vince Mcmahon

Nationally, I think it will be a common cold, if you will.

Christopher Cagan

And everyone there has some connection with one another. Everyone you talk to seems to have something in common.

T'anne Samson

It's a common problem with older shopping centers.

Al Cook

One of the most common forms of 'financial assistance' is the Hire Purchase (HP) agreement.

Jono Soames

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

Obviously, there are resonances between 1963 and 2005, ... How to contain China is the common thread.

Sugata Bose

It's common in a bankruptcy to have these charges -- you're cleaning house.

Douglas Baird

We shared a common focus.

Jeremy Stoltenberg

They're becoming more common, especially in the dot-com industry.

James Johnston

The most common design dilemmas between couples.

Michael Payne

The teams that have a winning record have one thing in common: they've all won those close games.

Stan Joplin

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

All these have a common denominator - all are brutal.

Judy Cornett

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

George Meredith

The common denominators are electrical power and telecommunications.

Peter Neumann

You'd be surprised how common it is to underestimate how much you're really eating.

Lisa Young

So it really is a synthetic effort to understand our common past.

Dr Spencer Wells

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

Henry Wallace

It happens from time to time, but it's not very common.

Javier Sambrano

It's far too common an occurrence.

Terri Miller

Above the vulgar flight of common souls.

Arthur Murphy

You form a common bond with people who go through the same thing you do.

Geoffrey Braunsberg

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Diabetes is now the most common chronic disease of childhood outside of asthma.

Dr. Rebecca Lipton

Accidents on or right next to airport property are not all that common.

Paul Turk

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

There's common ground. Everybody's getting what they want.

Todd Merritt

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

Gifford Pinchot

It's pretty common.

Philip Plait

There were a bunch of us who sat around in a common room here at King's and it was interesting to see yourself on TV.

Paul Mcleod

This process does take a few times. It's pretty common.

Mark Horn

We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Letitia Landon

I'm not sure of anybody with that many anvils. A real good collection is not that common.

Rob Edwards

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Donald Justice

That's common sense. We're not there yet.

Halee Hamilton

It's common sense and I think maybe it's time.

Irv Slosberg

Celebrating Diversity, Learning Our Common Humanity.

John Agyekum Kufuor

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's very common for our terminals to be operated by foreign companies. I don't see that as a cause for alarm.

Rachel Campbell

The e-mails are primarily angry that this could happen; that's the most common theme.

Bob Adams

The best example of what we're going to do is what we've already done, ... We're going to find some common ground.

Frank Hall

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

Sam Rayburn

Our approach is common sense in this professional era, and the WRU has ideals we've looked at.

Hugh Morris

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

THE COMMON GOOD. It keeps the energy focused on the common good.

Mike Shaver

The way the weather is, and has been, the ice is unpredictable. People should use common sense.

Robert Sterling

She is my conscience. She has lots of common sense.

Hector Venegas

They all have in common that they are bacteria caused by bowel and feces.

Lisa Kennedy

It's common that one spouse is the financial enabler.

Chris Cordaro

They are afraid. The only [common] factor is that [the victims] are homeless.

Cheryl Molinet

All the shells are cut out of the same sphere, ... and now all have a common denominator.

Michael Lynch

This command team has taken leadership, all for a common purpose.

Michael Bryant

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Mathew Henry

Like anything, ... you got to use some common sense.

Joel Bernstein

They had been influenced by Bauhaus. They have much in common in the way they used their cameras, their use of angles for illustration and their use of backlighting. You can see the influence of cinema and architecture.

Boris Kossoy

The things that we have in common [with Muslims] are not the things that bring peace. Only the things that are different can bring peace. The only way to come to God is through Jesus.

David Gould

Our friendship was for a common cause- secularism.

Jaipal Reddy

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Clive James

Common sense often makes good law.

William Orville Douglas

They just put common sense to it.

Billy Lynch

It's not rocket science. It's really about common sense.

Ray Tonjes

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Ben Okri

He believes they have common ground.

Sunny Mindel

Pass-through agreements are not very common.

Dave Morrison

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

James Howell

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

After that, they've got to use common sense, because there is always somebody trying to make a quick buck by trying to scam someone.

Mark Fagan

Changes in routine and lack of exercise are the two most common causes of stress in animals.

Bonnie Beaver

We haven't argued about much. We found we have a fair amount of common ground.

Tom Doak

They hug it. Pretend to lick it, that's a common one.

Katie Kirby

And that's where we have to go in the interests of both countries if we are to beat this common enemy.

C. Blair

It's a lot more common than you'd think.

Scott Mason

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It's the political season, and unfortunately these negative attacks are all too common.

Vivian Myrtetus

These issues are pretty common in all the towns.

John Vincent

Where else are you going to get the youth (and adults) together in one place to have fun and support a common cause?

Tammy Shadlow

It's a very common practice. The criminals are getting smarter and smarter every day.

Kevin Barnes

Only four common holes were completed.

David Weaver

It's something that both installations have in common.

Tammie Adair

It's really quite a bit more common than people recognize, even pediatricians.

Bradley Schlaggar

It is the most common cancer in America and the treatment choices are some of the most difficult.

Leslie Michelson

It was the common thought that New York was doomed.

Howard Rubenstein

In our judgment, it is not in the interest of the common good.

Marc Mutty

Friends have all things in common.

Plato

I would be embarrassed. Then again, it is kind of common.

Michael Sullivan

In a way, we have a lot in common. We both have husbands we love. We both have one child.

Kathy Najimy

Electrical power is the common factor to all those problems.

Peter Neumann

He's a fighter and he has the ability to organize people around a common goal.

Paul Hollen

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Gary Wills

The common denominator is it's really all about people.

Martha Rainville

We share a lot of common character and culture.

David Dyer

Common sense, you know, has got to prevail.

Brad Weaver

He was amazing in his ability to get to the core of the issue and bring some common sense to bear.

David Beck

The common sense approach to safe-drinking should always be taken.

Patrick Cochrane

What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Lord Byron

But the common wisdom was that Nef never appeared in healthy immune cells.

Andrea Cerutti

It is common sense. We aren't telling them what to say. We aren't telling them what to do on their own time.

Jim Finn

That's a common complaint wherever you go. We aren't getting enough.

Bill Withers

It is the most common abnormality that mankind has.

Dr. Ron Bush

What I'm fighting for is common sense.

Jim Abbott

Now we have one more thing in common with us. We can be together that much more.

Nathaniel Holt

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

Angus Wilson

Deep sense of the common man. He was born to the job that he did.

David Strathairn

Much more comes out on how common the practice was.

Rick Applegate

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Julian Casablancas

I'm one that like to find myself of the Common Kind.

Antiphilus Of Byzantium

They can't be the same. That's probably the most common mistake we see.

Ryan Watson

We can't cater to the lowest common denominator.

Joe Monahan

On the whole, the common thread is suspicion about profits.

Richard Kersley

We have no differences because we have nothing in common.

Guillermo Vilas

It's becoming more common, even though it's illegal. They're in the way of development.

Lynda White

Common sense tells you that it should deter drug use.

Linda Abbott

Ann and I have a lot in common.

John Bercow

Fatigue is becoming a very common complaint in the United States.

Judy Carter

It?s not super common and its not impossible.

Diana Henderson

We need a common enemy to unite us.

Condoleezza Rice

They want you to throw your common sense out the window.

Christopher Darden

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Richard Schickel

Use common sense. You can have a great time and be safe at the same time.

Lori Reynerson

From what I understand, it is the most common drug out there now.

Robin Kay

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

Kinky doesn't have a platform, he has common sense.

Jamie Sharp

Double-digit annual increases will become less common in the coming year.

Thomas Stevens

He's really a good guy. He's an intense guy and so am I. We have a lot in common, I think. I'm pulling for him.

Jim Leyland

It's common. We certainly see a lot of examples of it.

J. Tyler Makepeace

There are a lot of poor areas, a lot of areas where insurance is not common.

Malcolm Tarling

The Government said that, if there was a common message, it would listen.

Paul Ennals

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

Johann G. Seume

This alleged action is repugnant to our common values.

Jason Kamiya

It's very common to find tourists that pick their travel destination based on where the brewery is, and actually travel from brewery to brewery.

Colin Kaminski

Academics was the common theme.

Ryan Sullivan

There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.

Kristin Accipiter

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Dame Rose Macaulay

It's clear to anyone with common sense this is an attempt to get votes.

John Jones

Common sense hides shame.

Gaelic Proverb

(Cocaine is) as common as dirt.

Robin Kay

I want to put a little common sense back in Lincoln.

Bill Weaver

That was just common sense.

Dr. Robert Lehr

We all have one thing in common: We all like sewing.

Stacia Miller

If it's going to come, it's going to come. You can't even cure the common cold. Why worry about it?

Joe Ortiz

It's not common, but they've fixed it before.

Amanda Patterson

We made a couple of mistakes, which is common for us, to not make the right choice when it was 24-24.

Vicki Coleman

This is collaboration between two groups that have much in common - a love of the arts.

Cindy Russell

This is not common at all. This is a very unusual occurrence for us.

David Hakensen

We really got to know one another. It was unbelievable how much we had in common.

Troy Jones

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Sir Roger L'estrange

It's not a common thing we do.

Jennifer Andrews

These stats are meaningless in the absence of a common test and common standards.

Diane Ravitch

We are pleased that justice and common sense have prevailed.

Gail Rebuck

In more inexpensive strands, it's less common.

Robert Artelt

I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

Bill Watterson

A fire this size is not common. This is an unusual event.

Dan Considine

It is common among all ethnicities and is equally common among males and females.

Gary Lewis

It's very common in the Northeast to have almost everyone get a tip.

Alan Fields

If common sense prevails, ... common sense can get an agreement.

Gary Doer

We are always dreaming up ways to be more efficient. A lot of it is common sense.

John Pierson