Sensible People Quotes
32 quotes by 28 authors
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before…
— Samuel Butler
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they…
— Erik Erikson
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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
— H. L. Mencken
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I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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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
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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
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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.
— Alan Watts
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I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going…
— Barry Hughart
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Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at…
— Stephen Leacock
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How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the…
— Alan Page
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Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a…
— Frederick The Great
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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and…
— William Hazlitt
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It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.
— Anna Held
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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But…
— Stephen Leacock
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Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people…
— Larry Kramer
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
— Jane Austen
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It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be…
— Anne Bronte
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