My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with… — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“And a man who is stupid enough to let you slip through his fingers does not deserve you anyway.” — Helen Brooks 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
It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons… — Noel Gayler Copy Share Image
The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones… — Claire Weekes Copy Share Image
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake… — B. C. Forbes 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
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of… — William Hazlitt 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 always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
