Sensible Quotes

546 quotes by 424 authors

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the… — Thomas Dolby
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either. — Van Dyke Parks
If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically… — Paul Keating
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. — Douglas Yates
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren — Prince Charles
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no… — Kenneth Grahame
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread,… — Alexander Hamilton
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution. — Edward Abbey
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.… — William James
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin… — Willa Cather
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as… — Alexander Pope
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people. — H. L. Mencken
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. — Socrates
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness… — Plato
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin
We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of… — William Kittredge
The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of… — Dalai Lama
Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to… — George Berkeley
I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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