Keyword: Common sense

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

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

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Common sense is not so common.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

You don't have the sense God gave a gnat.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number seventy-nine.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

(1889 – 1966) American humorist, writer, illustrator & cartoonist

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

I don’t know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

Statistics are no substitute for common sense.

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

The Irish people do not gladly suffer common sense.

(1878 – 1957) Irish poet, author, athlete & politician