Sensible Quotes

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

All sensible investing is value investing

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.