Have common sense and stick to the point.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham

Topics: Common Sense Quotes

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of...

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of...

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to...

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to...

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way...

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way...

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer

Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other...

Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other...

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope...

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope...

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is...

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is...

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most...

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most...

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than...

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than...

Tolerance is only another name for indifference

Tolerance is only another name for indifference

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental...

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental...

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform...

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform...

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the...

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the...

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.