Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.[Chapman Cohen] Quote:Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:The only flaw in the Hinckley trial is that it left a lot of people with the impression that psychiatrists are just a bunch of bearded voodoo doctors who espouse confusing and wildly contradictory theories that have nothing to do with common sense. This is totally unfair. Many psychiatrists are clean-shaven.[Dave Barry] Quote:A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.[Aristotle] Quote:George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.[Mark Twain] Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.[Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Quote:Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.[Socrates] Quote:The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'[George Orwell] Quote:The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith] Quote:Friends have all things in common.[Plato] Quote:To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. [Jane Austen] Quote:Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. [Gertrude Stein] Quote:England and America are two countries separated by a common language. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:England and America are two countries separated by a common language. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:England and America are two countries separated by a common language. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. [Ogden Nash] Quote:The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. [Matthew Arnold] Quote:Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. [Alexander Hamilton] Definitions of: commonDefinition: Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.Definition: Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Definition: Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Definition: Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. Definition: Profane; polluted. Definition: Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. Definition: To converse together; to discourse; to confer. Definition: To participate. Definition: To have a joint right with others in common ground. Definition: To board together; to eat at a table in common. |
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