#common

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out. ↗

— David Antin

#common #damn #dog #doing #even

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. ↗

— David Antin

#common #george #gives #i #i think

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#certain #common #common good #community #good

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. ↗

— Aristotle

#better #business #clearly #common #create

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #commoner #cooks #members #murder

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#days #falling #i #least #note

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#armed #arrows #bows #common #dressed

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want. ↗

— Catherine Ashton

#billion #common #common belief #democracy #economic

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#age-old #always #america #because #being