Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Earl Nightingale

If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

Samuel Butler

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

Catherine the Great

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

David Hume

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

Chinua Achebe

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

Samir Husni

Ms. did well at the height of the feminist movement and then it faded. Ms. was aimed at a need, that women needed to prove themselves. Cosmo is not something women need. It's something women desire.

Eleanor Smeal

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

Dixie Lee Ray

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

Naomi Wolf

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

Roxane Gay

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing that.

Lynn Coady

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

Camille Paglia

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Caitlin Moran

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

Caitlin Moran

Women are feminist by default.

Bertrand Russel

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery

Suki Waterhouse

I was such a tomboy when I was young. I hated girls' clothes.

Gary Felty

I was shocked I hated that that happened.

Jerry Only

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

Travis Niesen

I'm always the most hated player on the road.

Jeff Neely

I loved going back there. I hated that I missed that.

Tim O'Brien

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

Alison Goldfrapp

I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.

Danielle Austin

I hated it so much. I want to be out there all the time.