L'IL MISS SHREW 'S PHILOSOPHY:
COMMON SENSE
FOR THE
COMMON MAN
SOME SHREWISH ADVICE
by Isaac AsimovWorlds of Science Fiction,
February 1958
When did
COMMON
SENSE
become so
UNCOMMON?
BELIEVE
NOTHING,
No matter where
you read it,
or who said it –
even if I have said it –
unless it agrees with
or who said it –
even if I have said it –
unless it agrees with
YOUR
OWN REASON
and your own
COMMON SENSE.
Buddha
SUCCESS
is more a function
of consistent 
COMMON SENSE
than it is of 
COMMON SENSE 
is the best SENSE
I know of.
Lord Chesterfield 
EVERYBODY 
gets so much information
all day long that
they lose their
they lose their
Gertrude Stein 
NOTHING
astonishes men
so much as 
COMMON SENSE
COMMON SENSE
and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
always speaks too late.
COMMON SENSE 
is the guy who tells you you ought
to have had your brakes relined last week before
you smashed a front end this week.
COMMON SENSE
is the Monday morning quarterback
who could have won the ball game
if he had been on the team.
but he never is.
but he never is.
He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. 
COMMON SENSE 
is the little man in a grey suit
who never makes a mistake in addition,
but it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.
Raymond Chandler
It is better to keep your mouth closed
and let people THINK you are a
and let people THINK you are a
FOOL
than to open it and
REMOVE ALL DOUBT.
REMOVE ALL DOUBT.
Mark Twain 
WRINKLES
WRINKLES
should merely indicate where 
SMILES have been.
Mark Twain
Gentlemen, 
Chicolini here may
TALK like an IDIOT, 
and LOOK like an IDIOT, 
but don’t let that fool you.
He really is an
IDIOT!
He really is an
IDIOT!
Grouch Marx
is the easiest thing I ever did.
