I think people think that being a teenager is all about fun, but what it is about is responsibility.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.

Men and women have been taught so much about each other that they don't use their common sense et al!

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid.

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna."["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.