Sensible Quotes

546 quotes by 424 authors

Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race… — Samuel Johnson
As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in… — Chris Van Hollen
In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to keep yourself warm… — Mors Kochanski
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off — Rex Stout
There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers — Harold MacMillan
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing… — Warren Buffett
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. — Nigel Farage
For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy,… — Donald J. Boudreaux
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views.… — Bryan Caplan
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction… — Walter Lippmann
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both… — Eli Siegel
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed. — Albert Schweitzer
It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow… — Beryl Bainbridge
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. — John W. Gardner
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong… — Herman Wouk
It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the… — Unknown Author
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the… — John Bunyan
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy. — Jan Schakowsky
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts

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