A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered. — Clive James Copy Share Image
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere. — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.” — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of… — Anuj 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 have loved to the point of madness, That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact… — Baroness Byford Hazel Byford Copy Share Image
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention?… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...Chemicals(:)...We not only don't know what's going on out there is dangerous ~ we don't even know what is going on out… — Russell E. Train Copy Share Image
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James Copy Share Image
I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image