There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
What works for me is a little bit of training and sensible eating. You know, the Cameron Diaz's of the world put… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
She's not my type,' Carter says. 'So what is your type?' 'Tall, skinny, black hair, blue eyes, freckly nose. Blue tinsel wig… — Cathy Cassidy Copy Share Image
I don't force myself to exercise; I find going to gyms really boring. I find it easier to go for a fast… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible… — John Bright Copy Share Image
I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold -- which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd… — David Einhorn Copy Share Image
A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or… — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
![“Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by… [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given…” quote by Eli Siegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/676/eli-siegel-21460_bases_music-for-a-long-time-has-been-telling-w_1865345.jpg)
![“I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.” quote by Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75d/benjamin-franklin-65_candle_i-say-it-is-impossible-that-so-sensible_2686132.jpg)
![“You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/953/fanny-burney-7403_devil_you-have-sensible-women-here-in-england_2177257.jpg)
