
"Your results are excellent and the quality of observed lessons was very high, however we're worried by an e-mail from Mrs Miggin's hairdresser who thinks you should teach 'a bit more common sense'. . ."
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"Your results are excellent and the quality of observed lessons was very high, however we're worried by an e-mail from Mrs Miggin's hairdresser who thinks you should teach 'a bit more common sense'. . ."
"When faced with a tricky ethical issue, I always ask the question, 'What's in it for me?'"
George Orwell
"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"
"Yes, six to seven weeks is my life expectancy! Once I learned that, I thought, the hell with it, I'll stop working and start travelling..."
"You need to justify your own existence first."
"Always take the bull firmly by the tail and look him directly in the eye..."
"All this pitching and hitting- I'm convinced there's a deeper meaning to it all."
Middle Age: When you finally get your head together, and your body starts to fall apart!
Caveman to kid: 'There's more to life than what you read on cave walls.'
'I'm down to a pack of neuroses a day.'
Aging Support Group
'The bad news is that our company is bankrupt. The good news is that we're only morally bankrupt.'
"Yes sir, I'm late. But I thought we were supposed to stop and smell the roses ... "
Life, love and a lot of bananas.
'I don't know what all the fuss is about.'
"I won't have anything to worry about when I grow up."
City Bar and Grill - "Stop worrying, youth and enthusiasm can't compete with experience and treachery."
"Your next pilgrimage must be to a bodega for milk."
'I respond to stimuli, therefore I ham.'
"I'm surprised I'm still single - I always thought I'd be divorced by now."
'You may disagree with me now, Son, but when you're 500 years old, you'll understand.'
Cars follow the sign to the mall rather than the sign to the manger.
"Just when I’ve reconciled the fact that I’m in my 40s, my 50th birthday shows up."
"You're born, you deconstruct your childhood, and then you die."
''Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense' Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895.'
'Life passed me by without using a turn signal.'
"Sure I can't pop that in a bag for you, sir?"
'Eve ate the apple, and she's asking if you want to make it two out of three with oranges and bananas?'
"Some day, son, all these aches and pains will be yours."
Always a popular motive: Hunter and Prey.
Who's Dead
Women
Been there. Done that. (Man stands between two doors.)
"I've figured out why my life is boring."
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