At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.
Mark TwainTags: humor common-sense
That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.
Vladimir NabokovTags: afterlife common-sense
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
William ThomsonTags: science common-sense math mathematics etherealization repulsive
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?
And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.
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What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
Hyman G. RickoverTags: experience common-sense management
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert G. IngersollTags: education common-sense
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
George HarrisonTags: reason peace violence common-sense
Sense is never common.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: common-sense
Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.
Amit AbrahamTags: virtue common-sense
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.
Gertrude SteinTags: natural information common-sense gertrude-stein
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