Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have decided that now is not the right time for me to run for the leadership - though I remain completely… — Jeremy Hunt Copy Share Image
He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people -… — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
It's cool that we got rid of that, but we got rid of everything - the encouraging pat on the back or… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
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