 Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.  Life and Times of the Right Hon. John Bright - Page 101by William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - 1877 - 521 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. — Surift. . Wrr AND COMMON SENSE. — Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...no man who has made the experiment has been so kind as to come back to inform us. — Coatley. MDLXL Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. Horace Walpole. Fino sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense : there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense ; and he that will carry nothing about with... | |
 | Bible - 1869 - 402 pages
...simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. Ps. xxxvii.—Dr. Barrow. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful, as common sense.—Dean Swift. V. 33.—I cannot readily comprehend, why Tiberius should have been so fond, to... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...finds but riddling shrift. Shakespeare. CLEANLINESS. " Cleanliness is next to godliness." COMMON SENSE. Fine sense and exalted sense, are not half so useful as common sense. Dean Swift. He that would pass the latter part of his days with honour and decency must, when he is... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...a whole nation. WHATELY : Annot. on Bacon's Essay, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature. GOOD SENSE. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense : there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense ; and he that will carry nothing about with... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...a whole nation. WHATELY : Annot. on Bacon's Essay, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature. GOOD SENSE. n, Seattle, Soame : there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense ; and he that will carry nothing about with... | |
 | Education - 1890 - 674 pages
...men in ten are suicides." " Never take a wife till thou hast a house, (and a fire), to put her in." " Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense." " He that sends a fool on an errand ought to follow him." "Don't after foreign food and clothing roam,... | |
 | Oxford (England) - 1875 - 562 pages
...in a resolved mind it digests an evil before it comes, and makes a future good long before present. FINE sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense : there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense ; and he that will carry nothing about with... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...expect him to tell me his points — not how many hairs there are in his tail." — STORIES OF LINCOLN. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense: there are forty men of wit for one of good sense ; and he that will carry nothing about with him but... | |
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