It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

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

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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

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

The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.