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
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield 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
“The more you talk, the less you'll have to say. The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say.” — Nadar Ralph Copy Share Image
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into… — Sheila Jackson Lee Copy Share Image
Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White 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
Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few… — David L. Katz Copy Share Image
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases… — Herman Wouk 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
“And a man who is stupid enough to let you slip through his fingers does not deserve you anyway.” — Helen Brooks 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
“Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film. — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
