Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Common chances common men can bear. Coriolanus, iv. 1.

Common distress is a great promoter both of friendship and speculation. Swift.

Common fame is seldom to blame. Pr.

Commonly they use their feet for defence whose tongue is their weapon. Sir P. Sidney.

Common men are apologies for men; they 15 bow the head, excuse themselves with prolix reasons, and accumulate appearances, because the substance is not. Emerson.

Common-place people see no difference between one man and another. Pascal.

Common-sense is calculation applied to life. Amiel.

Common-sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities. W. R. Alger.

Common-sense is the genius of humanity. Goethe.

Common-sense is the measure of the possible; 20 it is calculation applied to life. Amiel.