A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed,… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The world’s most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within you. The worst part is you can’t even tell who… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience,… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air,… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
“The world is full of zanies and fools, who don't believe in sensible rules, and won't believe what sensible people say. And… — Rogers Hammerstein's Cinderella Copy Share Image
The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons… — Noel Gayler Copy Share Image
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is… — Jeanne Kohl-Welles Copy Share Image
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. — Max Born Copy Share Image
When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“We're practical and sensible but we're also dreamers. Don't forget that part of you. There's nothing wrong with being sensible, but dreams… — S.H. Kolee Copy Share Image
Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Or was she going to be sensible, reliable, patient Elinor who never put her own feelings first because -- let's face it… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
