"Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name."

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Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1873). “A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present”, p.49

Richard Chenevix Trench

#Men Quotes #Names Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.”
“He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.”
“Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.”
“Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.”
“I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.”
“In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."”
“Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.”
“I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.”

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