Common Sense Humor Quotes

#1. Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

Maira Kalman

#2. Common Sense beats a dumb suggestion.

Ton'ya Felder

#3. Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

Christopher Paolini

#4. Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Martin Amis

#5. Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

Bruce Coville

#6. Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#7. Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

Richelle Mead

#8. You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

Glenn Beck

#9. My life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

Ingrid Bergman

#10. A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.

Fred Reed

#11. The Law of Logical Insanity: Anything that can easily be explained using common sense and rational thought is probably too simplistic and therefore false and untrue.

Ian Strang

#12. Eastman Jacob's legendary attempt to launch a car attached to a glider plane using Hampton's Tony Chesapeake Avenue as a runway only confirmed the Hamptonian's feelings that the Good Lord didn't always see fit to give book sense and common sense to the same individual.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#13. Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Rene Descartes

#14. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.

W. Somerset Maugham

#15. Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.

Grant Hill

#16. It was time for tea as it so often was.

Alexander McCall Smith

#17. He who jumps for the sake of jumping will probably keep jumping until he jumps back into his own jumping ground.

Duop Chak Wuol

#18. I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

Duop Chak Wuol

#19. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive James

#20. 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 Twain

#21. The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

Margery Allingham

#22. Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.

Tom Sharpe

#23. In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.

Gary Hopkins

#24. Shouting something didn't make it any more possible.

Angie Sage

#25. There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are

The Town And Country Magazine. Vol. 11, 1779

#26. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Euripides

#27. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

W.C. Fields

#28. John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Bertrand Russell

#29. Paranoia is habitual. If you get slapped in the face every time you turn a corner, then you'll EXPECT to get slapped in the face every time you turn a corner.

Chloe J. Blankenship

#30. Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.

Lois Greiman

#31. She refused to let common sense cloud her judgment.

Anne Taintor

#32. Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

Beatrice Lillie

#33. Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

George Carlin

#34. And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

Lois Greiman

#35. There's a combination of things [to survive the road trip]. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.

Brendan Benson