Sensible Quotes · Page 3

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

— John Lydon

Let's be clear: Neither Secretary Powell or I opposed the notion of removing Saddam Hussein by force, but we wanted to avoid…

— Richard Armitage

Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you…

— Kathy Reichs

I'd make - before I'd elect somebody - I'd make him do town meetings and face the people and then I would…

— Arlen Specter

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

— Ambrose Bierce

Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling…

— Johannes Kepler

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

— Jonathan Edwards

Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words…

— Richard Dawkins

Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have…

— B. C. Forbes

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that…

— Rebecca West

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is…

— Richard Le Gallienne

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond…

— Alexander Pope

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 really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.

— Dita Von Teese

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties…

— William Blake

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

— William Cowper

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and…

— David Hume

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his…

— Hippocrates

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

— Tom Hodgkinson

He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he’d get his eyes open again.…

— Julia Quinn

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

I think 'Elbow' were considered successful even before [2008's] Seldom Seen Kid because we were living off the band. We have a…

— Guy Garvey

For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually…

— Donald J. Boudreaux

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

— Alan Curbishley