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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

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

Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

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

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.