Sensible Quotes

546 Sensible quotes by 424 unique authors

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible… — Henry Home, Lord Kames
I think there's only one sensible place for a person to be at 5:30 in the morning. That's in bed. And what am I doing?… — Derek Clayton
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our… — George Whitefield
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. — Saadi
Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible. — Julia Cameron
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in… — Aldous Huxley
As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly… — Dalai Lama
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,… — Benjamin Franklin
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the… — Peter Singer
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. — Georges Clemenceau
Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can… — Dale Carnegie
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time… — Blaise Pascal
What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted.… — William J. Clinton
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A… — William Shakespeare
Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that… — Sheila Jackson Lee
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate… — William Butler Yeats
For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do… — Hillary Clinton
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and… — George Washington
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. — Thomas Carlyle
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill… — Diogenes
It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment. — Glynis Johns

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