Good sense Quotes · Page 3

“Tolerate the dull: they too have their story”

— Max Ehrman

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

— Moses ibn Ezra

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

— Sydney Smith

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

— Richard Rohr

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

— William Wycherley

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

— Condoleezza Rice

I could never be a lesbian because I have a really good sense of humor.

— Bonnie McFarlane

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

— Carmen Electra

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it…

— Denis Diderot

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

— William E. Gladstone

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a…

— David Hume

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try…

— Emily Perkins

“To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.”

— Plotinus

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

— Thomas Jefferson

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored…

— Heinz Pagels

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

— Paloma Faith

If you invest the time to understand the customer better than they know themselves, if you know the things they want or…

— Scott D. Anthony

Something that is appealing is wars are terrible and ugly and hard and each conflict is different, but of every conflict I've…

— Shaul Schwarz

You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves…

— Thomas Otway

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations,…

— Richard Rohr

I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest.…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally…

— Alexander Hamilton

The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same…

— Horace Walpole

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption…

— Anonymous

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a…

— Richard P. Feynman

It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the…

— Alfred Binet

Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in…

— Tom Peters

Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy.…

— Jonathon Porritt

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion…

— John Quincy Adams

Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical…

— Henry David Thoreau

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got…

— Eric Gill

Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of…

— James Madison

I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.

— Corbin Bleu

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

— Philippe de Commines

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

— Alexander Hamilton

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

— Patricia C. Wrede

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

— Judith Leiber