Sensible Quotes · Page 14

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There's trade, there's sensible trade, and there's dumb trade.

— Wilbur Ross

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

— Andy Murray

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

— Isaac Asimov

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

— John Lydon

You can be sensible in the tackles and still be physical.

— Andy Carroll

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

— Mark Ronson

“It certainly wasn't the sensible thing to do. [Referring to her move to Italy.]”

— Jennifer Criswell

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes…

— Paul Newman

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a…

— James A. Baldwin

We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This…

— Michael Yates

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse…

— Ron Chernow

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.…

— Georgia Groome

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The…

— Janice Hanna

Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all…

— Ben Maddow

Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet…

— Xavier Becerra

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle… Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims…

— Anonymous

EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said…

— Ambrose Bierce

What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more…

— Ralph Nader

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so…

— Anjelica Huston

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view…

— Bertrand Russell

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

— Tenzin Palmo

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

— Francois Fenelon

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

— Samuel Butler

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

— W. H. Auden

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Morris L. Ernst

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

— Jay McInerney

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

— Rex Stout

The sensible person is always serious about sensible advice.

— Mak_786

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

— Charles Kennedy

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

— E. W. Howe

Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.

— Nigel Farage

Putting yourself in danger just to meet me or talk to me is not a sensible idea.

— Shaheer Sheikh

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

— Thomas Traherne

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

— Warren Buffett