Sensible Quotes · Page 12

“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

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

— Alan Watts

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

— Michael Palin

I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found.

— Alan Curbishley

Nature conservation is not a luxury, it is a necessity! It not wise or sensible to continue to destroy your environment if…

— Mindy Baha El Din

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot…

— Noam Chomsky

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work…

— Harriet Martineau

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t…

— Charlie Munger

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash…

— James Boswell

I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by…

— Terry Pratchett

I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely…

— Justin Townes Earle

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

— Patricia C. Wrede

It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so…

— Anjelica Huston

Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been…

— John Locke

People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the…

— Andy Burnham

Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you…

— Voltaire

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his…

— Jonathan Edwards

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the…

— Winston Churchill

Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few…

— David L. Katz

“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My wife is not insecure at all. She is one of the most sensible persons I know.

— Fawad Khan

“I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.”

— Margaret Atwood

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

— Jane Gardam

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

— Bertrand Russell

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

— H. L. Mencken

There's trade, there's sensible trade, and there's dumb trade.

— Wilbur Ross

I think it's sensible to plan for the future now I'm a father and a husband.

— Andy Murray

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

— John Lydon

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

— Isaac Asimov

Will I be sensible and pay off the mortgage? Not a chance.

— Judd Trump

Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

— Julia Cameron

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

— Alfonso X of Castile

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

— W. H. Auden

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

— Samuel Butler

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

— Morris L. Ernst