#common

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#humor #smart #humor

Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#motivational

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

#common #hard #impress #most #people

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#common #die #going #matter #things

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#common #crime #dictatorial #free #free world

Common sense is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#calculation #common #common sense #life #sense

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#calculation #common #common sense #composed #experience

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

— Matthew Arnold

#common #common sense #next #sense

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#common people #men #people #speak #style

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#common #consensus #earth #expression #feminine