Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.