999 Quotes About Common-sense

"There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality."

"What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack."

"His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb."

"Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability."

"If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense."

"By the way, that's a far less expensive solution than other very foolish solutions I've heard. The veterans love it, they love it. But it's a far better solution than anything anybody's heard and its common sense and it's there.The doctors need the business and the private hospitals and public hospitals need the business and they're sitting there, waiting. So we don't have a choice. We have to do that."

"Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks."

"I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind. And I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and grace to be ashamed of yourself."

"I feel like, despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration."