Good sense Quotes · Page 5

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

— Danny McBride

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

— Publilius Syrus

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.”

— Emily M. Danforth

There are times when it is wiser to not let your good courage overrule your good sense.

— Anonymous

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

— Katsuya Okada

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

— Max Beerbohm

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready…

— Cesare Lombroso

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

— Brian Dennehy

You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or…

— J. I. Packer

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh…

— Owen Wilson

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get…

— Aristotle

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I…

— Eliphas Levi

God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare…

— David B. Haight

I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may…

— Thomas Jefferson

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only…

— Robin Roberts

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good…

— Chester A. Arthur

When asked what are the top things on her list when looking for the right guy: Gorgeous, available - gotta be single,…

— Dannii Minogue

One thing a girl has to have is a good sense of a humor. I'm a really laid back guy who can…

— Logan Lerman

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand…

— Joseph Addison

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the…

— Jason Reitman

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

— Alexander Pope

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

— Ovid

...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...

— Jane Austen

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

— E. W. Howe

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

— Samuel Richardson

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

— Joe Grant

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

— Horace

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

— Judith Leiber

“Have good sense, smell the scents, and you will have more cents”

— Sonya Withrow

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

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

— Philippe de Commines

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

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

— Carmen Electra

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

— Alexander Hamilton