Sensible Quotes

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

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.

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.

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

Sensible people find nothing useless.

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

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

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

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

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.

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

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.