Commonly Quotes

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

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

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

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

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.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

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.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

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.

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.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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.