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Sensible Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- 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…
- The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps,…
- Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
More Sensible Quotes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the… — Winston Churchill
- Am not looking for someone who is a good looking whom I can display and brag with friends but what am looking… — Pacifiersucker
- Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson
- If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd… — Benjamin Franklin
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. — Francis Bacon