Sensible Quotes

546 Sensible quotes by 424 unique authors

Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles… — Matt Taibbi
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a… — Jane Austen
It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a man will forfeit… — Christopher Moore
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that… — Barack Obama
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,… — C.S. Lewis
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided… — Terry Pratchett
I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn — T.H. White
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness… — Bertrand Russell
I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way… — Iain Banks
A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. — Emily Bronte
Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which… — Diana Gabaldon
A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and… — Jonathan Edwards
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount… — Bertrand Russell
The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would… — Lewis Carroll
The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who. — Chetan Bhagat
He suddenly became convinced that if he didnâ€™t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he… — John Boyne
He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible… — William Shakespeare
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity â€“ that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment,… — Charles Baudelaire

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