Common Quotes

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen