Five Common Sayings

#1. The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong. - Author: Harry Segall

#2. If a person is said to have five senses, then whoever has common sense has six. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person. - Author: George Orwell

#4. In fact, I believe that, barring a couple of key moments, Beli never thought about that life again. Embraced the amnesia that was so common throughout the Islands, five parts denial, five parts negative hallucination. Embraced the power of the Untilles. And from it forged herself anew. - Author: Junot Diaz

#5. You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money. - Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

#6. Does Vasic know you're here alone?"
"Does Sahara know she's mated to an overprotective Neanderthal?"
Kaleb's lips curved. - Author: Nalini Singh

#7. You look good there."
"Where?"
"In my bed."
Duuuuude.
Zart, Lindy (2014-11-20). Roomies (p. 110). Kindle Edition. - Author: Lindy Zart

#8. For all but our most recent history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of the dice. - Author: Atul Gawande

#9. I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with. - Author: Joseph Priestley

#10. The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman. - Author: Lord Kelvin

#11. The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately. - Author: Sukarno

#12. To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on. - Author: M.G. Vassanji

#13. There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy? - Author: Roald Dahl

#14. Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world. - Author: Winston Churchill

#15. You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common. - Author: Lyle Lovett

#16. The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity. - Author: George Orwell

#17. Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#18. 'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours. - Author: Terry Teachout

#19. I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside! - Author: C. JoyBell C.

#20. Who are you?" asked Shadow.
"The hardest part is simply surviving," said the man. - Author: Neil Gaiman

#21. Most people never question the core beliefs they grow up with," Emil confirmed. "You can look back on any culture five hundred years later and wonder how they could have ever believed some of the contradictory or flat-out insane things they accepted as law or common sense. - Author: Elliott James

#22. Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred. - Author: Kid Rock

#23. Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought. - Author: Studs Terkel

#24. There were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance. - Author: Lawrence Millman

#25. It's choice that makes us human. - Author: Jodi Picoult