She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“The more you talk, the less you'll have to say. The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say.” — Nadar Ralph Copy Share Image
I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to… — Mors Kochanski Copy Share Image
I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either. — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on… — T.S. Mathews Copy Share Image
We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“And a man who is stupid enough to let you slip through his fingers does not deserve you anyway.” — Helen Brooks Copy Share Image
There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film. — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
“Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.” — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
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