Commonly Quotes

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.