Sensible Quotes

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space.

I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found.

Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

I think it's sensible to plan for the future now I'm a father and a husband.

The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.

There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.