Pastoral Resources

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.