#sense

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coming #family #frozen #getting #had

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#feel #freedom #help #impotence #international

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#become #boring #even #humor #i

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. ↗

— John Thorn

#being #family #greek #home #literal

Common sense is not so common. ↗

— Voltaire

#common #common sense #sense

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#earth #generations #must #reverence #sacredness

Beauty should be edible, or not at all. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#nonsense #beauty

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bill #character #every #feet #height

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ↗

— Josh Billings

#anything #common #common sense #elegant #genius

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. ↗

— Josh Billings

#common sense #doing #done #knack #ought