Common sense is not a gift, it is a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone who does not have it.

Common sense is not a gift, it’s a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Source: Thomas A. Edison, quoted by Addie Johnson in Life is Sweet: 333 Ways to Look on the Bright Side and Find the Happiness in … page 106.

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Common sense is a lot like deodorant. The people who need it most, never use it.