Sensible Quotes · Page 11

“But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“In these modern times, the only sensible thing to be is nonsensical.”

— Jarod Kintz

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

— Voltaire

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

— Richard Steele

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?

— William Shakespeare

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

— William Shenstone

We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.

— Michael Nutter

My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a…

— Neil Oliver

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is…

— Mercedes Lackey

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes…

— Paul Newman

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a…

— James A. Baldwin

We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This…

— Michael Yates

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

— Paul Cezanne

We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's…

— Warren Buffett

There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore,…

— Tony Blair

The sensible thing for everyone to do would be to write all their op-eds and think pieces now so they're ready the…

— Dylan Moran

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more…

— Frances O'Grady

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle… Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims…

— Anonymous

EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said…

— Ambrose Bierce

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view…

— Bertrand Russell

What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more…

— Ralph Nader

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases…

— Herman Wouk

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

— Jane Austen

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!

— Heath Ledger

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

— Elinor Glyn

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— T. S. Eliot

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

— Edmund Hillary

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

— Anonymous

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

— Pierre Trudeau

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

— H. P. Lovecraft

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

— Elizabeth Taylor

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

— Carl Hart

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

— Nigel Farage

“It’s the sensible, logical thing to do, of course, which is why we don’t do it.”

— Anonymous

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

— Jane Austen

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

— William Osler

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

— George Edward Woodberry