W. Somerset Maugham Common Sense Quotations

Have common sense and stick to the point.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.