Sensible Quotes · Page 12

What I have achieved and be sensible, that the world was stupid until I have my grip

— Mak_786

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

— Rudyard Kipling

The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Prince Charles

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

— Haile Gebrselassie

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

— Robin Trower

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

— Wilkie Collins

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

— Benjamin Franklin

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and…

— Wallace D. Wattles

This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through…

— John Henry Newman

Its hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is…

— Pam Brown

A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this…

— Warren Buffett

Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body.…

— Anonymous

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

— Harold MacMillan

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

— Murray Walker

“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense”

— William Bolitho

You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human…

— Mallory Ortberg

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for…

— Abraham Lincoln

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to…

— Samuel Johnson

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain…

— Bertrand Russell

Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or…

— Maximus the Confessor

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he…

— Barack Obama

According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech…

— Lubos Motl

Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done…

— Terry Pratchett

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according…

— Joseph Addison

We can understand the sentiment you're saying to us. Oh, but sensible sells so could you kindly shut up.

— Sara Bareilles

It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.

— Martin Lewis

Heartless it may be, but headless it ain't. I've never claimed to be nice, just to be sensible.

— Anonymous

Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

— Ron Paul

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

— Kate Bush

Vada Chennai' is a proper mainstream film, told in a sensible way.

— Vetrimaaran

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

— Emily Bronte

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

— Linda Wells

“I don’t think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn’t know what to talk to him about.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Dick Cavett

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Ogden Nash

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

— Anonymous

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld