Commonly Quotes

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.