Impudence commonly makes a fortune. [ Proverb ]

The fork is commonly the rake's heir. [ Proverb ]

Our virtues are commonly disguised vices. [ Rochefoucauld ]

He that knows least commonly presumes most. [ Proverb ]

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart. [ Thomas Brooks ]

Reputation is commonly measured by the acre. [ Proverb ]

Tale-bearers are commonly a sort of half-witted men. [ Proverb ]

He that leaves the highway to cut short, commonly goes about. [ Proverb ]

Commonly he is not stricken again, who laughs when he strikes. [ Proverb ]

Those that eat the best and drink the best, commonly do worst. [ Proverb ]

Moderation is commonly firm; and firmness is commonly successful. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Great writers and orators are commonly economists in the use of words. [ Whipple ]

Commonly they use their feet for defence whose tongue is their weapon. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy. [ Sydney Smith ]

What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues. [ Thoreau ]

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. [ Juvenal ]

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. [ Goethe ]

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. [ Thoreau ]

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want. [ Lavater ]

The advice that is wanted is commonly unwelcome; that which is not wanted is evidently impertinent. [ Johnson ]

It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart; it is so much more sensitive. [ Thoreau ]

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. [ Charron ]

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one common pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. [ Johnson ]

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. [ Fuller ]

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. [ Wilkins ]

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance. [ Dryden ]

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer. Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. [ Burton ]

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. [ Macaulay ]

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages. [ Milton ]

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas. [ Macaulay ]

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions; but generally act according to custom. [ Bacon ]

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. [ Lowell ]

Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. [ Lowell ]

Those great actions whose luster dazzles us are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design; whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor. [ Dryden ]

Sincerity is an openness of heart; it is found in a very few people, and that which we see. commonly is not it, but a subtle dissimulation, to gain the confidence of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. [ Bishop Hall ]

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. [ Gladstone ]

Men commonly injure one another without cause, and simply to do something: as an idle promenader in a garden, breaks the young branches, and strips off the leaves of the most beautiful flowers. [ E. Souvestre ]

The heart will commonly govern the head, and it is certain that any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men, therefore the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. [ Dr. Waterland ]

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress. [ Herbert Spencer ]

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain. [ Dr. Johnson ]

What is commonly called friendship is no more than a partnership, a reciprocal regard for one another's interests, and an exchange of good offices; in a word, mere traffic, wherein self-love always proposes to be a gainer. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The want of interest renders a person negligent; servants are commonly negligent in what concerns their master's interest. Negligence is therefore the fault of persons of all descriptions, but particularly those in low condition. [ G. Crabb ]

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and fortune. [ John Knox ]

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. [ Lowell ]

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. [ Macaulay ]