Friday, August 20, 2010

Death by Creeping Common Sense

Eye deathImage by doug88888 via FlickrMy mother’s favorite Chinese Proverb: Never do anything standing that you can do siting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.




The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. – Henry Ward Beecher



Common sense is the wick of the candle. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. – Oscar Wilde



Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. – Calvin Ellis Stowe



The crown of all faculties is common sense. It is not enough to do all the right things: it must be done at the right tie and place. – william Matthews




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