| Common Sense (page 1) "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." --Edward Gibbon "Minds are like parachutes: most people use them only as a last resort." -- Ben Ostrowsky "There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." --African Proverb "The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust."--Josh Billings "The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel." --From Taxi "Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world" --The Law of Thumb "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again." --F.P. Jones "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." --Japanese proverb "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."--Dorothy Nevill "One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." --G. K. Chesterton "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." --Robert Benchley Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." --J. R. R. Tolkein "The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you." --Kin Hubbard "Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance." --Milton R. Saperstein "The question ought not to be, How old are you? but What have you done? and What can you do." --Charles Kuralt "Don't bait a hook, throw it in a puddle and expect to catch anything." --Valerie Velazquez "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."-- Anonymous "I have arrived at a place in my life where what other people think of me is none of my business." -- unknown "Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." -- Mary Ellen Kelly "A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood " --Chinese Proverb "No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks." -- Anonymous "If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer." -- Anonymous "Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it." -- Midrash "If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too." --Thomas Fuller "To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it." -- Josh Jenkins "Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have." --Anita Baker Next Page of Common Sense Quotes |