Sensible Quotes

546 Sensible quotes by 424 unique authors

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that… — E L Konigsburg
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. — Oscar Wilde
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of… — China Mieville
As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black… — Neil Gaiman
Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and… — Daniel Defoe
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part… — Garrison Keillor
I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the… — Cassandra Clare
Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each… — William Shakespeare
My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's… — Gustave Flaubert
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to… — Jonathan Edwards
Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair… — Tamora Pierce
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of… — Barbara Mertz
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime — Samuel Butler
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance? — Barbara Mertz
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! — William Shakespeare
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become… — Jerome K. Jerome
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. — Wilkie Collins
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present… — Benjamin Franklin
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will… — Mahatma Gandhi

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