Sensible Quotes

Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.

I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were in, rather than a situation you would like to have.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion. I'm sensible with money. It's not why I act.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

There's no doubt that I respect the Second Amendment, that I also believe there's an individual right to bear arms. That is not in conflict with sensible, commonsense regulation.

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.

If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because, on the whole, he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the perfect but for the best. Coupled with that is a special situation.

Sensible people have got to work together.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.

I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

I've always been very sensible with money.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.