“Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.”

“Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.”

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer

“There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.”

Mary Pope Osborne (1949) American children's writer

“There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.”

Jean Baudrillard book Simulacra and Simulation

“Being a living legend is such a precarious livelihood. It’s like being a bar of soap in a shower which doesn’t have any water in it.”

John Cale (1942) Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist

“Ophelia was a cyclone, tempest
a god damned hurricane
your common sense
your best defense
lay wasted and in vain”

Natalie Merchant (1963) American singer-songwriter

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

“Common sense ain't common.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer