Stupid Common Sense Sayings

#1. Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#2. [He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.

Georgette Heyer

#3. The kind of stupid you can manage to achieve only by being really, really smart, because only really, really smart people can reach adulthood without having any goddamn common sense.

Mira Grant

#4. with Sam and Matt and

Julie Ramson

#5. Common sense in reflecting on these subjects, I assured my friend with some warmth, is merely a stupid absence of imagination and mental flexibility.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

Gemma Arterton

#7. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

Jodi Picoult

#9. I allowed myself a little bit of relief. That was a lot less bad than I though it would be.
"Of course, we'll also have to have a parent-teacher conference. Do you have a parent available to call right now?"
Never mind. That was enough to ruin my whole year.

August Westman

#10. Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. After which, he visited the wife of that fool Wallace and spent midnight till dawn bouncing her from one end of the mattress to the other.

David Hewson

#12. Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks

Dean Cavanagh

#13. Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

George Carlin

#14. For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.

Dalai Lama

#15. He nodded like he felt sorry for me and my stupid brain. 'I think that's probably because of your common sense. You can't accept the idea of arriving before you leave, the idea that every moment is happening at the same time, that it's us who are moving - ' Enough was enough.

Rebecca Stead

#16. Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

#17. When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Andy Stanley