School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
Henry Louis Mencken
Related School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of du... H. L. MENCKEN School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Decency and common sense are not distributed evenly at birth. ASSYA MOUSSAID Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous.... HARALD ZUR HAUSEN It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, a... H. L. MENCKEN It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common hones... H. L. MENCKEN It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common hones... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i... CLIVE JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i... WILLIAM JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i... LYN KAROL I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable; for they are void of reason and common s... SUZY KASSEM Kentucky lost one of its finest citizens. Fred was the epitome of honesty, decency, basic goodness a... GOV. BRERETON JONES What makes sense these days?
Sense is common;
Common sense is rare GWEN MERKELBACH A person who has intelligence understands that the knowledge can only be acquired, not common sense ... ANUJ SOMANY Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. DAVID DEUTSCH I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I li... IRIS APFEL Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; 'Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer ... KARL WIGGINS All these have a common denominator - all are brutal. JUDY CORNETT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL WITHOUT FORMAL EDUCATION ARE THOSE WITH LOT OF COMMON SENSE AND LOGIC... DR.PRASAD RAJHANS The biggest obstacle in the way of human development is lack of common sense. CHRISTOPHER FEBVRE Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? FRANCINE RIVERS Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. JOSH BILLINGS Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. C. E. STOWE There is no difference amongst intelligence, common sense and wisdom, but for own comfort and conven... ANUJ SOMANY Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. WILLIAM OSLER The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense. SOURCE UNKNOWN The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense... MICHAEL SWANWICK If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are un... C.S. LEWIS Willingness to compromise with others’ ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make ... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Death knew that to tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world. He knew thi... TERRY PRATCHETT In the world of Investing, common sense is far from common. CHARLES BENNETT SACHS If common sense prevails, ... common sense can get an agreement. GARY DOER The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity. UNKNOWN There is no school of philosophy that approaches ordinary common sense. MICHAEL LIPSEY In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co... H.L. MENCKEN If only common sense were more common. ALBERT EINSTEIN If every human is blessed with common sense by the creator, the world would have been a much better ... CHANDRABABU V.S. These stats are meaningless in the absence of a common test and common standards. DIANE RAVITCH The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into c... NIKOLAI GOGOL Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done. SOURCE UNKNOWN Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop mea... NOAM CHOMSKY There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into... JEANNETTE RANKIN Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. GIFFORD PINCHOT Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18 ALBERT EINSTEIN You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span: / Take, if you must have... G. K. CHESTERTON The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existe... HANS ADOLF KREBS People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense. BEN CARSON It's important to get the new stadium for the club to survive financially. In the name of common dec... MARK MCGHEE The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That ... JEANNETTE WALLS The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in busines... MO IBRAHIM Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the a... GEORGE JEAN NATHAN There are God's ideals, and then there is common sense. ANDREW IRVINE We are pleased that justice and common sense have prevailed. GAIL REBUCK The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders LAO TZU But if he did do it, he should have the common decency to admit it, ROBERT MUNSON The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male cou... TARJA HALONEN Human beings were embedded with wisdom in order to cope up challenges and trials based on their perc... IVAN MON C. PANES Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting ... THOMAS SOWELL If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for a... HENRY A. WALLACE Common things are common and Uncommon things are uncommon. Let it be a footprint that you are uncomm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Common sense is not so common. VOLTAIRE There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common. KRISTIN ACCIPITER Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common se... FIDEL CASTRO The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o... VLADIMIR NABOKOV A Common Man who has Common Sense is better qualified to Lead than a Leader who has no sense of the ... J.J. BOWLERS Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. CHAPMAN COHEN America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share... BARACK OBAMA Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less i... STEVEN WEBER I didn't see the replay, but common sense will tell you that if the glove and the arm are behind the... BRIAN ROLSTON I very much hope that common sense and intelligence will prevail and an agreement will be reached in... JAVIER SOLANA If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. ROBERTSON DAVIES If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual. ROBERTSON DAVIES With age comes common sense and wisdom. NAS The world is in need of less religion and more common sense LLEWELYN POWYS How does ‘common sense’ arise? Through conflicts. During conflicts, if one does not clash with a... DADA BHAGWAN If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity f... HENRY A. WALLACE Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have... LYNDON B. JOHNSON We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense. SAMUEL FULLER ... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which surviv... ANDREW MOTION People let their common sense go on vacation before they do. It's easy to get caught up in the whole... JAMES ASHURST The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, bu... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had ... LOUIS DE BERNIèRES China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that re... LEON PANETTA Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. RALPH WALDO EMERSON What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common ... LOUIS D. BRANDEIS You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You will... RUSSELL R. LEGGETT Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life APHRA BEHN Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere. JACK HORNER New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they ar... JOHN LOCKE The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Common sense ain't common. WILL ROGERS The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding. 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HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is unc... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure ... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what m... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Do not overestimate the decency of the human race HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her hea... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will ... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and t... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless proce... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The lunatic fringe wags the underdog HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect ... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many in... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventur... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form o... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, hone... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN What men value in this world is not rights but privileges HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and great... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN