Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as…

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

— Alexander Pope

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make…

— David Hume

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

— Lord Chesterfield

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been…

— Paul Goodman

“Wherever one looks in the realms of creative endeavor, one finds the greatest architecture, music, art, sculpture, drama, ritual placed in the service of…

— Gordon B. McKeeman

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

— Alexander Pope

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one…

— Alexander Pope

When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.

— Catherine Anderson

“When I hired him I told him two things: no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .” “Amen to that,…

— Craig Johnson

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of…

— Haruki Murakami

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

— Adolf Hitler

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

— Jonathan Swift

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many…

— Italo Calvino

There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

— Thornton Wilder