Sensible Quotes · Page 13

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

— George Bernard Shaw

“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

— Mireille Enos

“Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing things you can’t do is just sensible.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

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

— Julian Assange

“There is nothing so unsure as the plans we make that rely on the sensible behavior of another human being.”

— Steven Saylor

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

— H. P. Lovecraft

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…

— Bear Grylls

See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends…

— Henry Grunwald

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what…

— William Hazlitt

Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments…

— Tristram Stuart

I'm not restrictive in terms of diet. I'm just sensible for the few days following a day where I have been pigging…

— Davina McCall

There are many reasons why the Republican establishment hates Donald Trump, and some of them are legitimate. I mean, a lot of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding;…

— Ed Bliss

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee…

— William Shakespeare

What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in.…

— Rex Stout

Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of…

— Susan Jacoby

Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and…

— Isaac Newton

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,…

— Berenice Abbott

The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it…

— Robin G. Collingwood

No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is…

— Robert Higgs

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

— Mark Steel

I'm not desperate to stay in Formula One. It needs to be sensible and it needs to be the right deal.

— Nico Hulkenberg

Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.

— Radhika Apte

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

— Jojo Moyes

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

— J. B. Priestley

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

— Francis Bacon

I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing.

— Alan Taylor

And I thuoght I was the sensible one. Thanks for setting me straight.

— Seven

HUSBAND, A sensible sort of a man -- he never thinks of romance and marriage;

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

— Anonymous

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

— Anonymous

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

— Akira Kurosawa

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

— Steven Rattner

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

— Anonymous