Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. - W. Somerset Maugham
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. - Joseph de Maistre
There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature. - Floriano Martins
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed. - Henry James