Common Quotes

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

Absence - that common cure of love.

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

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

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.