Common sense is calculation applied to life.

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

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Common sense is not so common.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.