Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth… — Johannes Scotus Eriugena Copy Share Image
Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Before committing to a task, it’s sensible to have a clear idea of our competence.” — Dr Prem Jagyasi Copy Share Image
There's a lot of disputes around the world, a lot of territorial conflicts around the world. But Israel is the only country… — Ron Dermer Copy Share Image
I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout… — Thomas Secker 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
I remember asking my mother if she believed in reincarnation and she said that that sounded very sensible, and I thought, yes,… — Tenzin Palmo 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
And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself… — Michael Foley 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
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to… — Thomas Carlyle 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
So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and… — Nina Conti 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
