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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… — Samuel Butler
- Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as… — Erik Erikson
- All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people. — H. L. Mencken
- I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently… — Warren Buffett
- When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts
- I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they… — Barry Hughart
- Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go… — Stephen Leacock
- How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the… — Alan Page
- Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows… — Frederick The Great