Evan Esar Quotes
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
P. J. O'Rourke -
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas -
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
Samuel E. Morison -
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
Taylor Sheridan -
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
Wayne Brady -
Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.
Safra A. Catz -
It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
Madeline Zima -
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
Oscar Wilde -
Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
Oscar Wilde -
I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.
D. H. Lawrence -
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Eric Gill -
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
Jasper Fforde
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.
Burton Malkiel -
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
William J. Brennan, Jr. -
If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!
Lewis Carroll -
There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
Evan Esar